Most dangerous injuries in football history

most dangerous injuries in football history. The year was 2014 and Brazil was hosting the World Cup on home soil with their entire country counting on one man to bring them a sixth title, 22-year-old Neymar, and he was delivering, scoring four goals in the group stage and dragging Brazil all the way to the quarter-final against Colombia. But with just two minutes left in that game, everything fell apart. Out of nowhere, Colombian defender Juan Zuniga came flying in from behind and slammed his knee directly into Neymar's lower back, causing Neymar to drop to the ground in agony and get carried off the field on a stretcher, sobbing. But the real horror didn't hit until he got to the hospital. Because when Neymar tried to stand up, he couldn't move his legs and he couldn't even feel them. And after running scans, doctors told him he had fractured his third lumbar vertebra and his world cup was over. But that wasn't even the scariest part. The doctors then explained that he had been incredibly lucky. Because if that knee had landed just two centimeters to the side, Neymar would have been paralyzed and never walked again, let alone played football. But the heartbreak was only just starting. Four days later, Brazil played Germany in the semi-final without him, and in front of their own devastated fans, they got absolutely destroyed 7-1, the worst defeat in Brazilian football history.