A teenage Dwayne De Rosario didn’t know how he was still standing. The pain was incredible. All he could see was blood.
Years before he became a soccer star, De Rosario was hanging in a friend’s basement in Scarborough when a friend of his friend put a gun to De Rosario’s head.
Bang.
“How was I not lying on the floor dead?” De Rosario wrote in his new book, “DeRo: My Life,” which will be released Tuesday.
The chamber was filled with dirt and small nails, not a bullet. De Rosario suffered a torn retina and a cut on the edge of his eye socket, injuries that would plague him throughout his future soccer career.