Faced with the controversy, has Neymar reviewed his plans? The Brazilian striker posted several videos on Instagram Thursday evening to deny the holding of a giant New Year’s Eve gathering 500 people in his town of Mangaratiba, near Rio de Janeiro. In the afternoon, he had staged submitting, with his son, to his “50th PCR test” since the start of the season. Hours later, he showed what his festivities finally looked like by filming the large table he was to sit at, with the chairs widely spaced.
“Wonderful decor, dining at home with a distance between two chairs and not for 500 people, okay?” According to his press office, no party was organized. “Neymar Jr. will not have a party this year, we are in the middle of a pandemic and he is with his friends and family,” said a statement to the O Estadao site in Sao Paulo.
To prove his claims, the former FC Barcelona star went around a dining table covered in white flowers with around forty guests, installed with an empty seat between each guest. “Social distancing, test for everyone”, is it written in caption.
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According to L’Equipe, the party organized in his villa went well but without the superstar. The Fabrica agency, which issued a press release earlier in the week to reduce the number of guests from 500 to 150, would have organized this evening well with bracelets, VIP corner and the presence of celebrities from the world of Brazilian music.
Faced with the scale of the controversy, Neymar could therefore have turned around. The Rio de Janeiro state prosecutor announced that he had opened an investigation into these rumors, adding that Neymar had denied Thursday preparing for this evening, according to the G1 news site. Brazil is the second country most affected by the pandemic, behind the United States, with nearly 195,000 victims.
