Fallen though not forgotten: Sudamericana pretension awarded to Chapecoense
Fans gleam lights during a one-minute of overpower in memory of Chapecoense during a Azteca track in Mexico City on Dec 4, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
ASUNCION: South American football connection CONMEBOL concluded to endowment a Copa Sudamericana to Brazilian bar Chapecoense, whose group was wiped out in a craft pile-up while streamer to a final.
The physique released a matter announcing a post-mortem honour to a formerly unsung club, who were carrying a angel story deteriorate until a disaster a week ago.
Chapecoense vice-president Ivan Tozzo hailed a preference as ‘justice’.
“We were certain that ‘Chape’ would be champions. It is a pleasing tribute,” he told a news conference.
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The licence craft drifting a group to a biggest compare in a story ran out of fuel and crashed into a plateau in northwestern Colombia.
A sum of 71 people died — many of a bar members, including players, government and staff. Three players, dual organisation members and a publisher survived.
The side was streamer to play a initial leg of a Copa Sudamericana final opposite Colombian bar Atletico Nacional in a city of Medellin.
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Nacional responded to a pile-up by job for Chapecoense to be postulated a Copa Sudamericana, a second top bar football pretension in South America.
The Paraguay-based connection pronounced Monday it had determined Nacional’s ask in determining to palm a pretension to Chapecoense.
“CONMEBOL awards a pretension for a 2016 Copa Sudamericana championship to Chapecoense,” including a $2 million in esteem money, a connection pronounced in a statement.
It awarded Nacional a $1 million CONMEBOL Centenary Fair Play award.
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“There is no larger proof of a suggestion of bargain and satisfactory play… than a care and honour shown by Atletico Nacional to a brothers in Chapecoense Football Club,” a matter said.
The tiny Brazilian city of Chapeco hold a large wake on Saturday for a group after a victims’ coffins arrived home, any draped in a club’s immature and white flag.
A minute’s overpower for a group was scheduled to be hold before each Champions League and Europa League diversion this week.
Chapeco awoke duration to a high charge of rebuilding a top-flight group from probably nothing.
“We have mislaid most all a assets,” pronounced Tozzo final week. He took over from President Sandro Pallaoro, who died in a crash. “After all we have achieved, now we have to start again from scratch,” pronounced Tozzo.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
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