Sexual Assault; Reasons for Neymar's Contract Termination with Nike!

Nike has stated the reasons for terminating partnership with the PSG and Brazilian international forward was for refusing to co-operate in an investigation of alleged sexual assault against an employee that happened in 2016.

Sexual Assault; Reasons for Neymar's Contract Termination with Nike!
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The employee who reported the allegations in 2018 with aim to avoid the investigation and keep it confidential later showed an interest to pursue it in 2019 which later forced Nike to part ways with Neymar in August 2020 minus explanations.

The star denied the accusations and asserted that his split with Nike was due to commercial motives via his spokeswoman despite the firm that advocates profuse sporting superstars ending the most decorated deals in football history.

"Neymar Jr will vigorously defend himself against these baseless attacks in case any claim is presented, which did not happen so far," she told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) newspaper, which first reported the news.

Nike parting ways with Neymar without reasons was because it had less supporting evidence to the case as well the forward refusing to co-operate to the investigations.

"Nike ended its relationship with the athlete because he refused to co-operate in a good faith investigation of credible allegations of wrongdoing by an employee.” quoted in a statement on Thursday.