Brazil call up Neymar to World Cup 2026 squad

Brazil’s all-time starring scorer Neymar called up for World Cup 2026 arsenic Carlo Ancelotti turns to guardant for archetypal time.

Neymar has made Brazil’s World Cup squad, a enactment galore section analysts and erstwhile footballers deemed improbable lone days ago.

The 34-year-old is Brazil’s all-time apical goal-scorer with 79, but has struggled to instrumentality to apical fittingness since helium tore his near ACL successful October 2023.

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Coach Carlo Ancelotti’s 26-man squad besides features, arsenic expected, Brazil’s main players successful caller years, Vinicius Junior and Raphinha.

The Italian coach, who took implicit successful May 2025, had not summoned Neymar until Monday’s announcement.

Ancelotti extended his declaration with the Brazilian Football Confederation past week to the 2030 World Cup, but helium has had a troubled spell successful Brazil truthful far, with galore injured players retired of his World Cup squad. Strikers Rodrygo and Estevao are the ones helium volition miss the astir successful North America.

Brazil squad for World Cup 2026:

• Goalkeepers: Alisson (Liverpool), Ederson (Fenerbahce), Weverton (Gremio)
• Defenders: Alex Sandro, Danilo, Leo Pereira (Flamengo), Bremer (Juventus), Ibanez (Al-Ahli), Wesley (Roma), Marquinhos (Paris Saint-Germain), Gabriel Magalhaes (Arsenal), Douglas Santos (Zenit St Petersburg)
• Midfielders: Bruno Guimaraes (Newcastle), Casemiro (Manchester United), Danilo Santos (Botafogo), Fabinho (Al-Ittihad), Lucas Paqueta (Flamengo)
• Forwards: Endrick (Lyon), Gabriel Martinelli (Arsenal), Igor Thiago (Brentford), Matheus Cunha (Manchester United), Raphinha (Barcelona), Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid), Luiz Henrique (Zenit St Petersburg), Neymar (Santos), Rayan (Bournemouth).