"You were two centimetres away from never walking again"

Neymar has opened up about his life in the documentary to be aired on 'Netflix'. He talked about his request to leave PSG or his arguments with his father and now he talks about getting injured. 

The Brazilian footballer revealed his worst moment as a footballer. He said it was the 2014 World Cup semi-final with Germany which saw the Brazilians lose 1-7 at home. 

"That match wasn't real. Goodness me, what was happening? It was a nightmare. When the game finished, I couldn't stop crying," Neymar confessed. 

He was unable to play after getting injured i the quarter-final clash with Colombia. Zuniga kneed him in the back, but somehow avoided a red back. "I got caught in the back and I noticed cramp in my foot. I couldn't turn around and I started crying."

"The doctor came to see me and he said to me: 'I've got news for you. One piece of bad news and one piece of good news. The bad news is you're out of the World Cup. The bad news is that you were two centimetres away from not walking again," he confessed.

Nadine Goncalves, Neymar's mother, recalled with this injury an accident they had when the player was just four months old: "His father was in bed connected to a machine for six months. The doctor said to me: 'Don't sign anything, we don't know if he'll be able to walk again.' Time had turned back. I'd been through it with his father and then with my son."

Lastly, Neymar talks about the relationship with his father: "It used to be that of father and son. Now we have a more distant relationship. We get on well, but I guess it's more of a professional one."

"I'm unable to separate the two roles. I paid a very big price for it. I gave up time with my family, but I don't regret it. Everything that happened to me, helped me. I tried to prevent my son having the same fears as me. I worked a lot psychologically so that it didn't influence him (Neymar) negatively," the footballer's father said.