{"id":133700,"date":"2023-12-21T12:02:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/neymar-to-miss-copa-america\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:02:20","slug":"neymar-to-miss-copa-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/21\/neymar-to-miss-copa-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar To Miss Copa Am\u00e9rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Neymar\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil forward Neymar will miss the 2024 Copa Am\u00e9rica in the United States because of a serious knee injury he suffered in October, Brazilian team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Al Hilal star, 31, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee during his country\u2019s World Cup qualifying loss to Uruguay on October 17, before undergoing surgery two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>The Copa Am\u00e9rica will begin on June 20 and run through the final on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too early,\u201d Lasmar told Brazil\u2019s Rede 98. \u201cThere\u2019s no point in skipping steps to recover sooner and taking unnecessary risks. Our expectation is that he will be prepared to return at the start of the 2024 season in Europe, which is August.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be patient. Talking about a return before nine months is premature, this is a global concept for knee ligament surgeries recovery. It is very important to respect the biological time, the time the body takes to reconstruct that ligament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we follow those steps and after a long recovery, the expectation is that he can perform again at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neymar is Brazil\u2019s all-time leading scorer with 79 goals in 129 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil were drawn into Group D of next year\u2019s Copa Am\u00e9rica, alongside Colombia, Paraguay and the winner of a playoff between Costa Rica and Honduras.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, it was announced that Brazil will face Mexico on June 8 in a pre-tournament friendly.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time the Copa Am\u00e9rica will be hosted by the US, following the centenary edition in 2016, with six teams from Concacaf joining the 10 from South America.<\/p>\n<p>After six years at Paris Saint-Germain, Neymar joined Al Hilal in the big-spending Saudi Pro League for a fee of \u20ac90 million ($98.6m) in August. 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