Neymar may miss 3 months with hurt toe

RIO DE JANEIRO — Neymar will have surgery on a fractured toe in his right foot and could be out for up to three months, an estimate that would take the Brazil forward right up to the World Cup.

Neymar was injured Sunday in Paris Saint-Germain’s match against Marseille in the French league.

Brazil’s national team doctor, Rodrigo Lasmar, says “it was not a simple fissure in his little toe. It was a meaningful fracture in a toe in the middle of his foot.”

Lasmar says Neymar will have surgery on Saturday in Belo Horizonte and will be out between 2½ and 3 months.

The World Cup starts on June 14 and Brazil is scheduled to play its first match against Switzerland on June 17.

Lasmar says “we will try to be within that deadline for him to play for his club and Brazil.”

WOMEN: In Columbus, Ohio, Megan Rapinoe scored in the 17th minute and the U.S. women’s soccer team held on for 1-0 victory over Germany on Wednesday night in a matchup of the world’s top two teams.

The top-ranked Americans controlled the pace on a cold, rainy central Ohio night in the SheBelieves Cup, a four-team round-robin tournament that also includes England and France.

The tournament continues Sunday at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey, with the U.S. facing France.