Brazil professor Fernando Diniz has condemned the “disrespectful” incident wherein Neymar used to be clash at the head by way of a bag of popcorn thrown from the stands nearest his crew’s 1-1 house draw with Venezuela.

The popcorn used to be thrown simply sooner than Neymar walked ailing the tunnel of the Enviornment Pantanal stadium on the finish of Thursday’s 2026 Global Cup qualifier.

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Neymar, who had performed all of the sport, needed to be opposed by way of Diniz as he pointed and shouted at enthusiasts within the stands that had been situated the place the thing have been thrown.

“I completely disapprove,” Diniz mentioned of the incident in his postmatch interview. “Cursing and booing is fine. Throwing a bag of popcorn doesn’t do anything for anyone.

“It’s disrespectful in opposition to those that got here to play games and attempted to do the most productive they might.”

Diniz was also frustrated that Brazil had not won the game as the result saw Argentina overtake them in the standings.

Argentina beat Paraguay 1-0 on Thursday to remain perfect in qualifying and go two points clear of Brazil after three games.

“We may have had a 2d [goal], a 3rd, a fourth,” Diniz added. “We completed the performs poorly. We additionally shouldn’t have conceded Venezuela’s function.

“We should have adjusted our marking and not given the opponent the chance to finish. But the team didn’t play a bad game. The players feel the heat and the difficulty of the pitch.”

Brazil go back to motion after they face Uruguay in some other qualifying collision in Montevideo on Tuesday.