{"id":65463,"date":"2018-05-15T17:04:35","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65463"},"modified":"2018-05-15T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T12:04:35","slug":"neymar-in-as-brazil-announce-23-man-world-cup-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=65463","title":{"rendered":"Neymar In, as Brazil announce 23-man world cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rio De Janeiro<\/strong>, <strong>May 15 (TNS):<\/strong> \u00a0Star winger Neymar Jr. was named in the world cup squad for Brazil on Tuesday after Brazil coach Tite announced the squad in a press conference in Rio de Janiero.<\/p>\n<p>There were not many surprises in the squad which the Brazilian coach announced, along with a recovering Neymar, Dani Alves who was ruled out of the world cup after suffering a knee injury in the French Cup final was replaced by Manchester City\u2019s right-back Danilo.<\/p>\n<p>A back-up for the Manchester city right back was also named in the squad, as Corinthians right back Fagner completed Tite\u2019s 23 man squad.<\/p>\n<p>Fagner is also suffering from an injury himself but Team Doctor Rodrigo Lasmar has declared the right back fit to play in the most prestigious football competition in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil will begin their World Cup campaign against Switzerland on 17<sup>th<\/sup> June in Russia and will seek to bag their sixth world cup title.<\/p>\n<p>After thrashing South American sides like Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, the 5 time world champions are now tipped favourites to win the world cup.<\/p>\n<p>23-man Brazil squad<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers: Alisson , Cassio , Ederson<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Danilo , Fagner , Marcelo, Filipe Luis , Miranda, Marquinhos , Thiago Silva , Geromel<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Casemiro , Fernandinho , Paulinho , Renato Augusto, Fred , Philippe Coutinho , Willian<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Neymar , Gabriel Jesus, Roberto Firmino, Douglas Costa , Taison<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rio De Janeiro, May 15 (TNS): \u00a0Star winger Neymar Jr. was named in the world cup squad for Brazil on Tuesday after Brazil coach Tite announced the squad in a press conference in Rio de Janiero. There were not many surprises in the squad which the Brazilian coach announced, along with a recovering Neymar, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65468,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65463\/revisions\/65468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}