Brazil's injured striker Neymar will attend Saturday's
third place play-off when the battered World Cup hosts take on the Netherlands.
Brazil were consigned to the ignominy of fighting out a
game Dutch coach Louis van Gaal has attacked as "unfair" after their
7-1 semi-final mauling by Germany.
Neymar's absence dominated the build-up to Tuesday's
humiliation. The Barcelona striker missed out after fracturing spinal vertebrae
in the quarter-final win over Colombia.
"Neymar will come here (to Brazil's World Cup base),
he's going to accompany the team to Saturday's match," confirmed Brazil
football federation spokesman Rodrigo Paiva to R7.com.
Paiva announced the news at Brazil's World Cup
headquarters in Teresopolis, near Rio de Janeiro.
The Barcelona superstar's absence and as importantly that
of suspended defender and captain Thiago Silva contributed to Tuesday's
shocking Belo Horizonte battering by a Germany side that now faces Argentina in
Sunday's final.
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