Like many members of the footballing community across the globe, Neymar woke on Tuesday morning to news so shocking it was difficult to comprehend. "It's impossible to believe this tragedy," he wrote. "Impossible to believe this event. Impossible to believe that this plane crashed. Impossible to believe that these people have left their families behind. It is impossible to believe."
Neymar's incredulity was understandable. How are we supposed to so suddenly accept that an entire football club has been decimated, entire families destroyed, an entire city devastated?
"There are so many people crying here," Chapecoense vice-president Ivan Tozzo told SporTV.