Paris Saint-Germain striker Neymar was close to death when he was one year old after a deadly car accident.
Neymar's father remembers this day in detail and tells his story in his book "Neymar .. This is my story" and says "On that fateful day I was returning from the mountain and it was raining and stormy, and suddenly one of the cars got out of control and hit my car."
Neymar was severely injured and covered in blood, but he suffered no fractures and was taken to hospital.His father was seriously injured and felt that he would die, but what worried him most was his young son.
"I asked, 'Where did my son?'
"The car stopped at a cliff and we were on a waterfall. The whole family was in danger. Neymar's mother had to get out of the rear windshield. I was stuck in the seat belt. We didn't know what happened to the child."
"The people who came to rescue us found him under the back seat of the car," he said.
"He was covered in blood," Neymar's father concluded. "Everyone escaped the incident."
Many say that Neymar's father is the cause of his troubles and not to "explode" his football talent and winning individual awards, because he is loving money and looks at his personal interest in any deal before the interest of his son's football, but for the father, he decided from the moment of the incident not to leave his son and try to help him to reach the top of football In the world.