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Watch: Neymar scores for Brazil in FIFA World Cup after return from bad ankle injury

Returning from an ankle injury, Brazil’s superstar Neymar lifted his country’s spirits with a goal in characteristic style in the match vs South Korea, which Brazil won 4-1 to advance into the quarter-finals.

Brazil was overjoyed with the football legend’s comeback as the ankle injury sustained in the match versus Serbia, raised fears that he would not be able to play in the remaining matches of the FIFA World Cup.

In his Instagram post, Neymar wrote that if God gave him the opportunity to choose the country to be born in, It would be Brazil. The star footballer said that after the injury he spent the entire night crying.

Brazil will now play in Croatia in the quarter-final.

IN Bureau

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