Soccer Football - World Cup - Group E - Brazil vs Switzerland - Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don, Russia - June 17, 2018 Brazil's Neymar during the warm up before the match REUTERS/Darren Staples
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Reuters) - Brazil forward Neymar will make his first competitive start since injuring his ankle and metatarsal in February after being named in coach Tite's starting line-up for the five-times winners' World Cup opener against Switzerland on Sunday.
The world's most expensive player had a painful end to his last appearance at a World Cup when he suffered a back injury in a quarter-final game against Colombia in 2014 and on Sunday he was named in the starting 11 for the Group E game even though Tite admitted the day before that he was "not 100 percent".
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