{"id":28857,"date":"2014-07-07T10:24:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=28857"},"modified":"2014-07-07T10:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T09:24:44","slug":"neymar-cried-i-cant-feel-my-legs-after-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/neymar-cried-i-cant-feel-my-legs-after-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Neymar cried \u2018I can\u2019t feel my legs\u2019 after challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"entryContainer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div>\n<p>MADRID (AFP) \u2013 Brazil\u2019s star striker Neymar cried \u201cI can\u2019t feel my legs\u201d after a crunch World Cup challenge by Colombia\u2019s Juan Zuniga, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari told Spanish sports daily Marca.<\/p>\n<p>Scolari said the whole team panicked after the knee in the back tackle during Brazil\u2019s quarter-final victory over Colombia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2014\/07\/neymars-injury-breaks-brazil-presidents-heart\/neymar2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-453637\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Injured Brazil star Neymar departed his team's training base in Terespolis in a helicopter on Saturday and headed home to Sao Paulo, after his World Cup ended in agony on Friday night. AFP PHOTO\" src=\"http:\/\/dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Neymar2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Injured Brazil star Neymar departed his team\u2019s training base in Terespolis in a helicopter on Saturday and headed home to Sao Paulo, after his World Cup ended in agony on Friday night. AFP PHOTO<\/p>\n<p>Left back Marcelo was first to reach the striker, who suffered a fractured vertebrae that has ruled him out of the World Cup, after the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo knelt next to Neymar and asked how he felt, according to Scolari.<br \/>\n\u201cHe replied: \u2018I can\u2019t feel my legs,\u2019\u201d added the coach.<\/p>\n<p>Marcelo shouted for the team doctor, but doctors are not allowed onto the pitch.<br \/>\n\u201cMarcelo was scared and called the doctor on but the doctor couldn\u2019t get on in the confusion. It was a big shock, the image of Neymar being stretchered off to the helicopter, in difficulty, crying,\u201d Scolari was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n<p>Team doctor Jose Luiz Runco said that Marcelo\u2019s calls for the doctor had caused the panic after the challenge.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve lost the one player we didn\u2019t want to lose ahead of the semi-finals and the final,\u201d Scolari said of the \u201cdisastrous\u201d loss.<br \/>\nNeymar was stretchered off in the 88th minute of the game and rushed to hospital where the fracture of the third vertebrae was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old Barcelona striker has since taken a few steps but the team doctor Rodrigo Lasmar has said it will take from four to six weeks to recover.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA is investigating the tackle by Zuniga who could face action. The Colombian defender has apologised but insisted he had not intended to hurt Neymar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #444444; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;\">Varsity students kills father SAN, over prayer disgreement<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a 21-year-old undergraduate, Tolani Ajayi, of Redeemers University along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, for allegedly killing his father, Mr. Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, according to the police, occurred on Tuesday, July 3, at their residence on Canaanland Street within the Redeemed Christian Church of God\u2019s Redemption Camp.<\/p>\n<p>Tolani was said to have slaughtered his father with a knife and later butchered him with a cutlass.<\/p>\n<p>Tolani afterwards allegedly packed his father\u2019s remains in a box and dragged them into the bush within the camp.<\/p>\n<p>The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Muyiwa Adejobi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the police later recovered the remains of the 60-year-old lawyer in a bush along Canaanland Street.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThe policemen who noticed the ground mark created by the box as Tolani dragged it, followed this lead which led them to the strange discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said Tolani, a 300-level undergraduate in the Department of History and International Relations, was arrested the same day in his late father\u2019s residence after the discovery of the corpse and police preliminary findings.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi added that the Divisional Police Officer of the Redemption Camp Police Station, Olaiya Martins, a Superintendent of Police, had led a team of detectives and some members of the community who noticed the strange attitude of the suspect while dumping the box.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThey traced the ground marks made by the box to the point where the body of the SAN was dumped and thereafter traced the mark to the house of the deceased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the police got to deceased\u2019s house, the suspect was in a relaxed mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen interrogated, the suspect earlier lied that his dad had gone on evangelism, but he eventually confessed to the crime when he was taken to the Redemption Camp Divisional headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was said to have told policemen that problem arose when his late father confronted him for not responding to all the prayer points he (the deceased) was raising, adding that he (father) later slapped him.<\/p>\n<p>He said he got angry and made a dash for the kitchen and picked up a knife, with which he stabbed his father, adding that he later used a cutlass on him.<\/p>\n<p>It was leant that the police had recovered the knife and cutlass used in committing the alleged crime.<\/p>\n<p>Adejobi told our correspondent that the Charles\u2019 corpse had been deposited at a morgue in the Sagamu area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID (AFP) \u2013 Brazil\u2019s star striker Neymar cried \u201cI can\u2019t feel my legs\u201d after a crunch World Cup challenge by Colombia\u2019s Juan Zuniga, coach Luiz Felipe Scolari told Spanish sports&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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