Jakson Follmann

Jakson Follmann's story stops me cold every time. A goalkeeper for Chapecoense, he survived the 2016 LaMia crash that killed 71 people, including 19 of his teammates — one of only six who walked away from that disaster. He lost a leg and his playing career, yet rebuilt himself as a commentator and singer. What strikes me isn't the tragedy alone but what he did with the aftermath: refusing to be defined solely as a survivor. That kind of resilience is easy to romanticize and hard to actually live. I have enormous respect for the second act he chose to build.

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Name (English)

Jakson Follmann

Name (Japanese)

ジャクソン・ハグナル・フォウマン

Reading

じゃくそん・はぐなる・ふぉうまん

Born

March 14, 1992 (age 34)

Origin

Alecrim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakson%20Follmann
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%82%B0%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10304761

Tags

• Rio Grande do Sul
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.