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In one of those strange quirks of fate that often are heard in the wake of tragedies such as the plane crash carrying Chapecoense players, Mateus Saroli, son of club coach Caio Junior, has told how close he came to being on the doomed flight.

Matheus Saroli, son of Chapecoense coach Caio Junior, reveals that he too would have been on the flight had he not forgotten his passport. pic.twitter.com/lDhVamNe1C ? Euan McTear (@emctear) November 29, 2016

Forgetting his passport is the act that saved his life, on a night when almost all of his teammates perished.