Chapecoense plane crash survivor Neto has announced his retirement from playing football three years after the tragedy in which 71 people died.
The 34-year-old said he had been forced to hang up his boots due to "constant pain" after he suffered life-threatening injuries in the crash in 2016.
Chapecoense defender Neto was the final survivor to be pulled from the wreckage of the air crash. He was fighting for his life for two weeks in hospital in Colombia following the tragedy.
Neto returned to action after two years in recovery following the crash, but will be offered a different role at Chapecoense now that he has had to call time on his playing career.
"My body couldn't take it any more," Neto told Globo Esporte.
"The pains were greater than the pleasure.
"I talked to the doctors and soon there will be an official statement from the club.
"Apparently there was no pain in my daily life, but in high-level training the body could not stand the knee and back pain, which saddened me most in the end and took me off the field.
"It was already in line with the doctors and the club. I wanted to say goodbye, a game, but I chose not to. I was invited to join the last minute against CSA, but I did not.
"Of course I have a fondness for the fans and it would be a gift to the fans, but life is a gift. I had a great intention of being on the field for a minute or 10, whatever."
On his return to Chapecoense following the crash, Neto had been greeted with banners and chants of 'the champion is back'.
He was given as much time as he needed by the club to recover from his injuries, and took part in a charity game to raise funds for the families of victims of the plane crash.
