Mineiro forfeit Chapecoense game

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Chapecoense will not have to play their final match of a tragic season after Atletico Mineiro decided to forfeit the points.

Nineteen members of the Brazilian side’s first-team squad, as well as officials and journalists, were killed on Tuesday when an aircraft taking them to a match crashed in the mountains outside Medellin in Colombia.

They had been due to take on Atletico Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamerica final, South America’s equivalent of the Europa League, on Wednesday.

Only three of their players survived the crash and they are all in hospital …

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