Plane tragedy overshadows FIFA Club World Cup
- 07-Dec-2016
YOKOHAMA: Atletico Nacional will play through their grief over the Chapecoense plane tragedy when they tackle the Club World Cup in Japan — just days after their Copa Sudamericana final opponents were wiped out. FIFA’s global club showpiece, which will also feature Cristiano Ronaldo’s Real Madrid, begins this week under the shadow of the air […]
WATCH: Another heart-breaking footage shows Brazilian football team joking, laughing before doomed flight takes off
- 30-Nov-2016
COLOMBIA: The football world mourned Tuesday after a plane carrying a Brazilian team crashed in the mountains in Colombia, killing 71 people but miraculously leaving six survivors. Six people miraculously survived the crash Monday night, but the disaster virtually wiped out an up-and-coming Brazilian football team and sent shock waves through the world of football. Football legends Pele […]
Soccer crash survivors undergo operations in Colombia, probe begins
- 30-Nov-2016
LA UNION, COLOMBIA: Doctors treated traumatised survivors and an investigation was to get underway on Wednesday into an air crash that killed 71 people and wiped out Brazil’s Chapecoense football team en route to a cup final in Colombia. Only six people – three players, a journalist and two crew members – survived the disaster […]