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Loan offers for Chapecoense
- Updated: November 30, 2016
Brazil’s leading football clubs have pledged to loan players to Chapecoense for free and asked for them to be safeguarded from relegation from the top flight for the next three seasons following a plane crash in Colombia which left 75 people dead.
Chapecoense were on their way to play in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional, which had been due to take place on Wednesday evening.
The jet carrying the Chapecoense team, along with club officials and journalists, came down late on Monday night, officials from the Jose Maria Cordova International Airport in Medellin announced. There were 72 passengers and nine crew on board.
News of the crash sent shock waves around the football world, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino offering his condolences, as did three-time World Cup winner Pele, while current Brazil international Neymar, the Barcelona forward, said the news was “impossible to believe”.
Following Tuesday’s developments, Atletico Nacional asked CONMEBOL to award the cup to their opponents as …
