Atlético Nacional offer cup title to Chapecoense
Chapecoense were travelling to take part in their first ever Copa Sudamericana final in Medellin, Colombia when their plane crashed on killing almost everyone on board. Their cup final opponents Atletico Nacional have requested that Chapecoense be named as winners of the tournament in tribute to those who lost their lives in the disaster.
Brazil has declared three days of national mourning after a plane carrying the Chapecoense football team crashed in Colombia in the early hours of Tuesday, killing 75 players, journalists and crew members.
Six of the 81 people on the plane – three footballers, two crew and a journalist – survived the disaster. Another footballer who was pulled alive from the plane’s wreckage died later in hospital.
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Plane carrying Brazil’s Chapecoense soccer team crashes in Colombia, 75 dead
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Doctors at several hospitals are working to stabilize the six survivors of a plane crash. All the injured suffered severe trauma injuries.
Hospital officials say Chapecoense player Alan Ruschel appears to be in the most delicate condition. He’s suffered a spinal fracture. Ruschel was stabilized at the San Juan de Dios hospital and transferred by ambulance to the intensive care unit of better-equipped facility, where he’s awaiting surgery.
San Juan de Dios medical director Guillermo Leon says defender Helio Zampier arrived shortly after dawn and is in stable condition with skull and chest injuries.
A third player, Jakson Follmann, is at another facility and being evaluated for multiple unspecified injuries.
Journalist Rafael Valmorbida is recovering from surgery for chest injuries.
