Neto ended his five-year association with Sporting well, by winning the national title, but he still cannot forget the difficult phase he went through last season, due to a complex injury to his left knee and then surgery for a pneumothorax. Spontaneously, which made him descend into “hell.” “I think at that time I would have played a lot of games with Saint-Just. I was at my best at Sporting. Then I had a very strange injury to my knee, and I realized something was wrong, and I was even afraid.” “It was a much more serious injury, and in the final stage of my recovery, I suffered a pneumothorax. It took a lot from me mentally, emotionally and physically.” He said he lost a lot of weight: “I lost my hunger, I lost my weight, I'm 64 kilos – and I'm strong (laughs).” .

“I only went to the gym to do physical therapy, I couldn't do any other type of exercise. It was a challenging period and my family went through hell with me. I wanted to beat the timing to come back but I had to follow the normal procedures to come back. The hardest thing for me was being away, and it ended up being lonely, we go to the academy at a different time, we do several April 4, vs. Santa Clara: “I came back to everyone's applause. I was able to reinvent myself for a winning season like this. ”