SANTIAGO, Chile — Neymar, the superlative Brazilian soccer star, jumped over a sign barrier last month while celebrating a late Champions League goal and an imminent victory for Barcelona that was watched by tens of millions of viewers.
It was a crowning moment of a successful club campaign for Neymar, the culmination of a year spent erasing the memories of last year’s bitter World Cup disappointment in Brazil.
But back in South America on Wednesday, against the same country that knocked him out of last year’s World Cup with a fractured vertebra, Neymar walked off the field in disgrace.