Rio de Janeiro — Brazilian superstar Neymar flew into Rio de Janeiro early on Thursday for an operation on his fractured foot that will rule him out for up to three months, casting a shadow over Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Brazil’s World Cup preparations. The world’s most expensive player, 26, arrived on an Air France flight from Paris and left in a wheelchair, a photo taken by a fellow passenger showed. Dressed in a black hoodie, a black baseball cap and wearing sunglasses, the PSG star smiled and took selfies with passengers before leaving on a private jet to an undisclosed destination. He will have surgery on Saturday, national team surgeon Rodrigo Lasmar said. But despite the hurry to put Neymar under the knife at a hospital in Belo Horizonte, he will not be back on the field soon. "The [recovery] period will be around two and a half to three months," Lasmar said after arriving with the player on the same Air France plane. The injury has not only ruled Neymar out of PSG’s do-o...
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