Football’s Chapecoense tributes

Pele has led tributes to the Brazilian side Chapecoense after a plane carrying members of the club crashed in Colombia.

The team were travelling to Medellin to play Atletico Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final – the equivalent of the Europa league – on Wednesday night.

They were accompanied by journalists, club officials and crew when their charter flight went down in a mountainous area on Monday night, killing 76 people. Five others survived, including three players. 

Pele said: “Brazilian football is in mourning. It is such a tragic loss. My sincere condolences to the families of the deceased. Rest in peace.”

Current Brazil international Neymar, the Barcelona forward, said the news was “impossible to believe”.

A post on his official Instagram account read: “It’s impossible to believe this tragedy, impossible to believe what happened, impossible to believe that the plane crashed, impossible to believe that athletes, human beings were onthis plane, impossible to believe that these people left their families… Today the world cries, but heaven rejoices in receiving Champions.”

Neymar’s Barcelona club-mate and Argentina forward Lionel Messi added on his Facebook page: “My deepest condolences go to all of the families, friends and supporters of the Associacao Chapecoense de Futebol squad.”

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