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The PSG attacker, after his frustrated return to Barcelona, will dress again short three months after his last performance, the friendly Brazil and Qatar played on June 5 in Brasilia.
For its part, the Colombian National Team returns to action after its elimination in the quarterfinals of the Copa América against Chile.
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The Colombians were the best team in the group stage of the tournament, in which they showed good football and won the three games played, although they hit the defensive bolt of Chile in the quarterfinals and were eliminated in the penalty shootout.
For the friendlies against Brazil and Venezuela, Colombia will not have its two most renowned players, James Rodríguez and Radamel Falcao, whom Portuguese coach Carlos Queiroz left out of the list due to physical problems.
The big question in the eleventh national is to know who will take the place of James, the only born midfielder of the team, as Queiroz himself admitted when he announced the list of summoned.
“We have to move forward with creative football, with a lot of penetration of passes, of consistency. I don't have a flyer 10, but four 11 that can create imbalance throughout the field. ”
Queiroz will continue betting on the headline with which he played the Copa América, with the entry of Jefferson Lerma or Mateus Uribe in the center of the field instead of James and Luis Fernando Muriel, injured in the first game of the continental tournament, replacing Falcao in the attack.
Affected by Dorian
The preparation of both teams in Miami was affected by Hurricane Dorian. Brazil planned to train during the week at Barry University, which was closed for security.
This meant that ‘Canarinha’ had to exercise in an indoor pavilion of the Miami Dolphins, of artificial turf.
The match will be played at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami.
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Coach Tite confirmed that Neymar will play in the match against Colombia, three months after being injured.
The forward "clinically has recovered from the injury that, as everyone remembers, took him away from the Copa América" Brazil-2019, which the host won last July, Tite said yesterday during a press conference at a Miami hotel.
“If it wasn't right, I wouldn't be with the national team. We are not irresponsible to force a situation that goes against the athlete's health, ”said the coach.
In that friendly match between Brazil and Qatar, Neymar was injured at 20 minutes in the ankle and was left out of the Copa América.
The striker has not played 90 minutes since April 27, when he played the final of the French Cup with the PSG, and is the only one of all those called to play in Europe that has not yet played in this 2019-20 season.
Despite his lack of pace, the Brazilian coach, Tite, continues to blindly trust his great star, who will lead the Seleçao attack again.
Tite must continue betting on the base team that won the Copa América in July, although with three novelties in the eleven. Goalkeeper Ederson enters the place of the injured Alisson; Neymar replaces Everton ‘Cebolinha’ (who was not summoned to be able to play the semi-final of the Brazilian Cup with the Guild of Porto Alegre); and Richarlison will enter instead of the sanctioned Gabriel Jesus.
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