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Chapecoense stars laid to rest
- Updated: December 3, 2016
Fans packed into Chapecoense’s Arena Conda on Saturday to say goodbye to the 19 players and club officials killed in Tuesday’s air crash in Colombia.
The Brazilian club lost the majority of their squad and multiple members of staff in the crash just outside Medellin on Tuesday that claimed the lives of 71 of the 77 people on board, including a number of football journalists.
Chapecoense, a club that had risen through the Brazilian league system over the last four years, had been heading to the Colombia city for the first-leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday.
Instead, they now face rebuilding the squad from almost scratch, with the only three playing survivors – Alan Ruscher, Helio Hermito Zampier Neto and Jakson Fullman – all having had to undergo serious surgery since Tuesday.
Coffins arrived in Chapeco on Friday and were driven from the …
