{"id":37376,"date":"2014-08-06T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=37376"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T14:37:01","slug":"neymar-returns-to-barca-training-after-passing-medical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/08\/neymar-returns-to-barca-training-after-passing-medical\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar returns to Barca training after passing medical"},"content":{"rendered":"
Neymar has returned to training with Barcelona following his back injury.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old forward fractured a vertebra in a collision with Juan Zuniga during Brazil\u2019s World Cup quarter-final against Colombia last month.<\/p>\n
Neymar, nominated for the Golden Ball despite missing their semi-final obliteration by Germany and the disappointing third-place play-off defeat by Netherlands, successfully passed a medical on his return to Catalonia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A statement on the Barcelona website read: \u201cThe four World Cup semi-finalists\u00a0Leo Messi, Javier Mascherano, Dani Alves and Neymar all trained with their colleagues on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey returned to the club for their medical tests and all passed with flying colours, and are now set for three weeks of intense training in the build-up to the start of official matches in three weeks\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neymar scored 15 goals in 41 appearances in his first season at Camp Nou, after signing from boyhood club Santos for \u20ac87.2 million last summer.<\/p>\n
Barcelona host Elche in their opening La Liga game, which takes place on August 24.<\/p>\n
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Source: Sky Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Neymar has returned to training with Barcelona following his back injury. The 22-year-old forward fractured a vertebra in a collision with Juan Zuniga during Brazil\u2019s World Cup quarter-final against Colombia last month. Neymar, nominated for the Golden Ball despite missing their semi-final obliteration by Germany and the disappointing third-place play-off defeat by Netherlands, successfully passed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":37377,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[29,1581,3,242],"yoast_head":"\n