{"id":154070,"date":"2019-09-21T09:55:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154070"},"modified":"2019-09-21T09:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T08:55:40","slug":"brazil-vs-nigeria-coach-tite-reveals-why-neymar-will-play-against-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=154070","title":{"rendered":"Brazil vs Nigeria: Coach Tite reveals why Neymar will play against Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Brazil-vs-Nigeria-Coach-Tite-reveals-why-Neymar-will-play-against-Super-Eagles.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Brazil coach, Tite, has revealed the rationale behind his decision, to include Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, in his 23-man roster for the friendlies against Senegal and Nigeria next month. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the speculations involving Neymar, Barcelona, Real Madrid and PSG this summer, the player received a call-up for Brazil\u2019s games in September.<\/p>\n<p>He impressed in their season opener against Colombia, scoring and providing an assist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeymar is happy in the national team, I can talk about the national team, he is happy here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has no control over other situations because I have no control. But he demonstrated it in games,\u201d Tite told reporters at Friday\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Flamengo defender, Caio, is making a return to the squad and two exciting 21-year-olds in Gremio\u2019s Matheus and Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid\u2019s Lodi, are in line to make their international debuts next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRodrigo Caio has been returning to a very high standard he had in the Brazilian team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLodi is a young player we are following at Atletico Madrid, has the technical and physical virtues of great players..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMatheus is within a line we like a lot, he\u2019s an articulator, very large pass capacity and mobile,\u201d Tite explained.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil coach, Tite, has revealed the rationale behind his decision, to include Paris Saint-Germain forward, Neymar, in his 23-man roster for the friendlies against Senegal and Nigeria next month. Amid the speculations involving Neymar, Barcelona, Real Madrid and PSG this summer, the player received a call-up for Brazil\u2019s games in September. He impressed in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[9510,4460,243],"class_list":["post-154070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-neymar","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/154071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}