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Plane with a Brazilian club team crashes in Colombia (Not the national team)
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:02 am
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:02 am
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An airplane with 72 people on board, including players from a Brazilian soccer team heading to Colombia for a regional tournament final, has crashed on its way to Medellin's international airport.
Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez said that it is possible there are survivors.
"It's a tragedy of huge proportions," Gutierrez told Blu Radio on his way to the site in a mountainous area outside the city where the chartered aircraft is believed to have crashed shortly before midnight local time.
He said ambulances and rescuers were on their way. It is not clear what caused the crash.
Medellin's airport confirmed that the aircraft, which departed from Bolivia, was transporting the Chapecoense soccer team from southern Brazil, which was scheduled to play the Copa Sudamerica finals against Atletico Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin.
It's horrible news, but is this some big time team or not very well known?
ETA: mods, please move to soccer board.
This post was edited on 11/29/16 at 1:41 am
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Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:03 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Oh, oh shite. This isn't good.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:05 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
They are in Brazil's top division so it's pretty comparable to an mls team plane crashing
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:05 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yikes
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:05 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sad
Its a club team from Brazil, not the national team
But still just awful
Its a club team from Brazil, not the national team
But still just awful
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:08 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Misleading subject title
Hate to hear it either way
Hate to hear it either way
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:15 am to List Eater
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Misleading subject title
I was worried about Neymar too
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:18 am to SlowEasyConfident
I'm not sure how I should title it. Do you recommend a certain way? I put an "a" in front to clarify it's not "the" national team. Not sure if that helps.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:20 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
You're good
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Teams in Brazil that are the countries team travel with 72 people?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:26 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Just put (Not the national team)
Posted on 11/29/16 at 12:47 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Put "Plane with Chapecoense (a soccer club from Brazil)"
Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:08 am to apfour21
Put 'plane with Brazilian club team'....that will clear up any confusion.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:23 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Put Plane of Brazilian Footballers
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:02 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Damn, that's going to be a huge story. I had never heard of this team, and it looks like they were basically the Brazilian equivalent of Gonzaga or Butler. Not a big team at all and no big names, but they were able to knock off very big teams and accomplish a lot in the South American cups.
Sounds like there are a few survivors but this is the biggest plane accident since the crash in Yaroslavl, Russia where the entire team died in 2012.
Sounds like there are a few survivors but this is the biggest plane accident since the crash in Yaroslavl, Russia where the entire team died in 2012.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:06 am to Keys Open Doors
At least two of the players are alive and at the hospital, but it appears as if many more have died.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:22 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:10 am to Keys Open Doors
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Damn, that's going to be a huge story. I had never heard of this team, and it looks like they were basically the Brazilian equivalent of Gonzaga or Butler. Not a big team at all and no big names, but they were able to knock off very big teams and accomplish a lot in the South American cups.
This is much bigger than a plane with the 'Gonzaga' or 'Butler' players going down on it.
it's a professional team that finished ninth in the Serie A in Brazil (top league) out of 20 teams this last season. It would be like a plane with an NBA team going down here.
Only editing post to add this: Sorry Doors, you frequent the Soccer Board so you know most of this. Wasn't meaning to be a smartass. Didn't know if it was someone who wasn't familiar with foreign leagues and was just trying to explain it.
This post was edited on 11/29/16 at 3:19 am
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:13 am to Nukeese
That doesn't look like a survivable crash
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:16 am to tigerpimpbot
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That doesn't look like a survivable crash
I'm sitting here trying to figure out how the frick that was even a plane.
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