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Neymar (M) being consoled by Thiago Silva and Dani Alves (R)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Brazil great, Ronaldo, believes Neymar and other Brazilian players should have psychological help to deal with the \u201cdisproportionate pressure\u201d from the World Cup.<\/p>\n Neymar admitted after his team\u2019s World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Croatia on penalties that he was \u201cpsychologically destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would advise having a psychological support to withstand this pressure, which is extremely disproportionate for human beings,\u201d Ronaldo said.<\/p>\n \u201cNeymar will come back with the same passion, with the same desire. But I wanted to reinforce this need to monitor the mental health of our players \u2026 It is very important for us to address this issue, especially when it comes to the World Cup, where the whole world is looking at the national team. The world was looking at Neymar.\u201d<\/p>\n Looking to win his first major trophy with Brazil, Neymar, 30, had recovered from an ankle injury sustained in their group game opener against Serbia to play in the knockout round of the tournament.<\/p>\n He drew level with Pele as Brazil\u2019s all-time leading men\u2019s scorer with 77 goals after hitting the back of the net in extra time against Croatia before Bruno Petkovic equalised to take the game to penalties.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I saw the [Neymar\u2019s] interview saying that he was psychologically destroyed, it broke my heart in a way that I was also psychologically destroyed,\u201d Ronaldo said.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted to find a way to help him. That help exists today. In my day it was little talked about.\u201d<\/p>\n Ronaldo said earlier in the tournament that he was \u201cshocked\u201d by the level of \u201cenvy and evil\u201d that Neymar was having to deal with after getting injured in their group opener against Serbia.<\/p>\n Some Brazilians celebrated Neymar\u2019s misfortune and the two-time Brazil World Cup winner advised the Paris Saint-Germain forward \u201cto turn the hate\u201d he was getting \u201cinto fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neymar (M) being consoled by Thiago Silva and Dani Alves (R) \u00a0 Brazil great, Ronaldo, believes Neymar and other Brazilian players should have psychological help to deal with the \u201cdisproportionate pressure\u201d from the World Cup. Neymar admitted after his team\u2019s World Cup quarterfinal defeat to Croatia on penalties that he was \u201cpsychologically destroyed.\u201d \u201cI would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[5394,27703],"class_list":["post-1264998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-neymar","tag-psychological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}