Eight years after the tragedy of Chapecoense, the Brazilian soccer club, whose plane crashed in the Colombian department of Antioquía while en route to the final of the 2016 Copa Sudamericana to face Atlético Nacional, the three surviving soccer players have taken the word to relate his experience in ‘The Players Tribune’. In the fatal accident on November 28, 2016, 71 of the 77 people who were traveling died on the plane, overweight and short of fuel. Alan Ruschel, Jackson Follman and Hélio Neto were the only surviving footballers along with the journalist Rafael Henzel and the crew members Ximena Suárez and Erwin Tumiri. On the eighth anniversary of the tragic events, the footballers remembered what happened and one of them, Hélio Neto left a shocking story about how he experienced the accident, which ended the dream of a modest team that in a few years had gone from playing in the fourth category of Brazilian football to playing a final of the Copa Sudamericana. Or rather how he relived it, because as he confessed on camera, he had dreamed about the tragedy before it occurred. «I dreamed it would happen. A few days before we left for the Copa Sudamericana final in Colombia, I had a terrible nightmare. When I woke up, I told my wife that I had been in a plane crash. I was on the plane at night and it was raining heavily. Then the plane shut down. It fell from the sky. But somehow I was able to rise from the rubble. I went out and was on a mountain at night. Everything was dark. That’s all I remembered,” he says in ‘The Players Tribune’. Related News Standard Football Yes The desperation of Guardiola Sergi Font The intensity with which he lives the games led him to self-harm after his negative streak. “On the day of the trip to the In the end I couldn’t get the nightmare out of my mind. The dream was so vivid. It was hammering in my mind. So I texted my wife from the plane. I told him to pray to God to protect me from that dream. I didn’t want to believe it was really going to happen. But I asked him to pray for me,” he continues. The dream or premonition ended up coming true, turning Chapecoense’s fateful trip into one of the greatest tragedies in the history of football. «Then I saw all the things in the dream really happen… The plane turned off. The strength fell completely. “I was completely awake… And the plane fell from the sky.” They were the last images that the trip left in his mind, because when he regained consciousness he was already in a hospital room: “I saw that my father was sitting in the chair crying. All the doctors entered the room. My mother and father were there. My sister. A psychologist. Pastor. “They told me they had something to tell me.” “My father said to me, ‘Do you remember that dream you had?’ I said, ‘Of course I remember the dream. I told my wife. I was on the plane at night. It rained a lot. The plane went out. Fell. I could rise from the rubble. I went out and was on a mountain at night. Everything was dark,’” his story continues. «Something strange happened when I started talking about my dream. The psychologist left the room crying. My mother was crying. And the doctor said: ‘Well, it wasn’t a dream, Neto, it was reality. The Chapecoense plane crashed. That was one of the hardest moments of my life.” “I woke up among trees.” His overwhelming testimony was joined by those of the other two surviving footballers, Alan Ruschel and Jakson Follman. The latter’s words are as moving as Neto’s: “Everyone sat down, no one knew what was happening. The crew didn’t tell us anything until a flight attendant came by and told us to sit down, that we were going to land. In there you couldn’t do anything, you had nowhere to run… you could only leave it in God’s hands. I remember that many people began to pray. And then I think it happened because I don’t remember anything else, I woke up among the trees and heard a lot of people suffering.
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