{"id":159627,"date":"2019-10-12T12:37:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159627"},"modified":"2019-10-12T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T11:37:45","slug":"brazil-vs-nigeria-what-neymar-said-after-making-history-in-draw-against-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=159627","title":{"rendered":"Brazil vs Nigeria: What Neymar said after making history in draw against Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brazilian star, Neymar on Friday said he was honoured and proud after making history in his side\u2019s international friendly 1-1 draw against Senegal at the Singapore Stadium.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST reports that the Paris Saint-Germain forward became the seventh player to win 100 caps for Brazil after the Selecao drew against the Teranga Lions.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old joined the likes of Cafu (142), Roberto Carlos (125), Dani Alves (117), Lucio (105), Claudio Taffarel (101) Robinho (100) in reaching the landmark.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Otro, Neymar said: \u201cI think only on the day, or one day before, will I be able to understand the magnitude of playing the hundredth match for my country, Brazil.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously when I realised I was close to this milestone, I had butterflies in my stomach and I felt quite anxious, but while I am here and not in the Brazilian team environment, I don\u2019t think about it much but I am very proud of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel great happiness in being able to reach this milestone as a Brazilian national team player and as an athlete.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think everybody dreams of playing for their country. And being able to represent Brazil one hundred times is a great honour.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neymar will now hope to lead Brazil to victory when they face Nigeria in their next international friendly on Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazilian star, Neymar on Friday said he was honoured and proud after making history in his side\u2019s international friendly 1-1 draw against Senegal at the Singapore Stadium. DAILY POST reports that the Paris Saint-Germain forward became the seventh player to win 100 caps for Brazil after the Selecao drew against the Teranga Lions. The 27-year-old […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121418,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4460,13396],"class_list":["post-159627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-neymar","tag-nigeria-vs-brazil"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159627","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=159627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}