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Woke up today with the devastating news about a plane crash that victimized 75 out of 81 passengers in a flight in Colombia with the entire crew of the Chapecoense soccer team from the city of Chapecó, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. They were headed to play the first game of the finals of Sulamerican Cup, second biggest tournament in the continent after Libertadores Cup.
I live in Brazil and even though it's been years I don't follow soccer like I used to in my childhood, I was looking forward to these finals. Chapecoense is a small team from a small market, from a state that doesn't have soccer traditions, teams from this state are always fluctuating between Divisions C, B, and sometimes playing the National League with the top 20 teams of the country, just to end in the bottom 4 and drop to lower divisions again.
This Chapecoense team though was doing a nice job in recent years, well coached and well organized team with good management, making their way to the top and they were playing their first final in an international tournament and the whole country was cheering for them as usually happens when a small underdog club gets the opportunity to play in the big stages.
2009 - Division D
2012 - Division C
2013 - Division B
2014 - Division A (Main League)
2016 - Sulamerican Cup Finals
Their head coach had gigs as a HC from some of the top teams in the country but always got fired after underachieving but he was doing a fine job showing that sometimes it just doesn't work out, it doesn't mean the coach is incompetent. The same is true for veteran players that found their place there. The second game of the finals was not even going to be in their stadium as it doesn't meet the minimum requirements and available places for an event like this, they would probably play in another state.
That was really shocking news, I couldn't get out of in front of the TV this morning and go to work, the last time that happened was in the 09/11 attacks. Shocking, sad, terrible news. Many reporters from Fox Sports and Globo TV were also in the fight, including a former player and coach, Mario Sergio, who was in the Brazilian National Team for the 1982 World Cup, he was working for Fox Sports as booth commentator.
This tragedy has the same magnitude of the Marshall plane crash, with even some coincidences, both teams used green colors and in both accidents there were 75 fatal victims. No one survived the Marshall crash, this time 3 players, a journalist and a flight attendant survived.
Found this video and decided to make this post as a small tribute.
I live in Brazil and even though it's been years I don't follow soccer like I used to in my childhood, I was looking forward to these finals. Chapecoense is a small team from a small market, from a state that doesn't have soccer traditions, teams from this state are always fluctuating between Divisions C, B, and sometimes playing the National League with the top 20 teams of the country, just to end in the bottom 4 and drop to lower divisions again.
This Chapecoense team though was doing a nice job in recent years, well coached and well organized team with good management, making their way to the top and they were playing their first final in an international tournament and the whole country was cheering for them as usually happens when a small underdog club gets the opportunity to play in the big stages.
2009 - Division D
2012 - Division C
2013 - Division B
2014 - Division A (Main League)
2016 - Sulamerican Cup Finals
Their head coach had gigs as a HC from some of the top teams in the country but always got fired after underachieving but he was doing a fine job showing that sometimes it just doesn't work out, it doesn't mean the coach is incompetent. The same is true for veteran players that found their place there. The second game of the finals was not even going to be in their stadium as it doesn't meet the minimum requirements and available places for an event like this, they would probably play in another state.
That was really shocking news, I couldn't get out of in front of the TV this morning and go to work, the last time that happened was in the 09/11 attacks. Shocking, sad, terrible news. Many reporters from Fox Sports and Globo TV were also in the fight, including a former player and coach, Mario Sergio, who was in the Brazilian National Team for the 1982 World Cup, he was working for Fox Sports as booth commentator.
This tragedy has the same magnitude of the Marshall plane crash, with even some coincidences, both teams used green colors and in both accidents there were 75 fatal victims. No one survived the Marshall crash, this time 3 players, a journalist and a flight attendant survived.
Found this video and decided to make this post as a small tribute.
