{"id":109,"date":"2026-05-28T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=109"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T10:24:21","slug":"come-to-brazil-cole-palmer-told-he-would-be-neymars-successor-in-south-america-as-joao-pedro-reacts-to-seeing-chelsea-team-mate-left-out-of-englands-world-cup-squ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Come to Brazil\u2019 &#8211; Cole Palmer told he would be Neymar\u2019s successor in South America as Joao Pedro reacts to seeing Chelsea team-mate left out of England\u2019s World Cup squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\" data-affiliate-button-variant=\"C\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>Looking ahead to the tournament in North America, Pedro is confident that Brazil can end their 24-year drought for a World Cup title. He identified Vinicius Junior and Raphinha as the key figures who will benefit from Ancelotti\u2019s culture of shared responsibility, as long as the squad remains unified in their pursuit of glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:start\"><span>\u201cOf course, Vin\u00edcius is going to be the guy. But for Vinicius to be the guy, he needs the team. So, he doesn\u2019t want to say, if you don\u2019t win, it\u2019s your fault. No, no, no,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The group needs to look in the same way, to think the same way. And then you\u2019re going to see Vinicius, you\u2019re going to see Raphinha.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Chelsea forward even aimed a cheeky dig at his team-mate&#8217;s nation, predicting a clash between the heavyweights in the latter stages of the competition. Brazil are set to face Morocco, Haiti, and Scotland in the group stages, but Pedro is already looking further ahead, concluding: \u201cWe\u2019re going to beat England in the quarter-final.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking ahead to the tournament in North America, Pedro is confident that Brazil can end their 24-year drought for a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racingsport.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}