{"id":4249,"date":"2014-03-06T08:34:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T08:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2014-03-06T12:27:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T12:27:44","slug":"brazilian-soccer-god-neymar-nabs-cutest-pitch-invader-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4249","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian soccer god Neymar nabs cutest pitch invader ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/neymar-brazil.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4251\" alt=\"neymar-brazil\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/neymar-brazil-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/neymar-brazil-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/neymar-brazil-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/neymar-brazil.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Brazil&#8217;s national <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/soccer\/\">soccer<\/a> team, complete with superstar striker Neymar, played a friendly match against South Africa in Soweto Wednesday. It was one of their final tune-ups before hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/world-cup\/\">2014 World Cup<\/a> this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil won 5-0, and immediately after the game a young South African of about eight or nine years old ran onto the pitch. Officials initially tried to herd him away, until Neymar \u2014 one of the world&#8217;s most popular players \u2014 came over and scooped the beaming boy into his arms.<\/p>\n<p>The story gets even better. Neymar posed for photos with the kid, as did some of his Brazilian teammates. Together they hoisted the invader-turned-hero into the air. You can see the entire encounter in the <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/youtube\/\">YouTube<\/a> video above. Photographer Marco Longari also captured the moment between young boy and soccer god:<\/p>\n<p>The month-long 2014 FIFA World Cup starts June 12 in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Mashable.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s national soccer team, complete with superstar striker Neymar, played a friendly match against South Africa in Soweto Wednesday. It was one of their final tune-ups before hosting the 2014 World Cup this summer. Brazil won 5-0, and immediately after the game a young South African of about eight or nine years old ran onto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}