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- Updated: January 3, 2017
Chapecoense, the Brazilian club devastated by an airline crash in Colombia which killed 71 people five weeks ago, are to sign around 20 players for the new season which starts later this month.
Almost all of the team’s senior players died when their plane crashed on November 28, as they travelled to Medellin to play Atletico Nacional in the final of the Copa Sudamericana.
Their director of football said on Tuesday that shirt numbers used by the squad’s only three survivors will be reserved.
Centre back Neto, full-back Alan Ruschel and reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follmann survived the disaster.
Director of football Rui Costa said all three still had a role to play at the club, with Neto and Ruschel possibly returning to represent the first team again in the future.
Costa …
