Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Four months after a plane crash all but wiped out Chapecoense, the Brazilian club will on Tuesday face the rivals they were on their way to play, Colombia's Atletico Nacional. Nineteen Chapecoense players and 24 club officials were killed on November 28 when the team's plane crashed into the Colombian mountains. […]

Maracaibo (Venezuela) (AFP) – Brazilian football team Chapecoense on Wednesday promised more surprises after an emotional 2-1 victory in their first international match since a plane crash wiped out their squad. The side's new team, rebuilt with 22 new signings since last November's crash, surprised the crowds with their quality in beating Zulia FC of […]

Maracaibo (Venezuela) (AFP) – Brazilian football team Chapecoense landed in Venezuela on Monday ahead of their first international fixture since a plane crash wiped out their team. The side had to rebuild virtually from scratch after the crash killed 19 of their players and staff in November, turning a fairytale rise into a nightmare. The […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazil and Colombia play a benefit match on Wednesday for the families of members of Brazilian team Chapecoense who were killed in a plane crash in November. The team's plane went down on November 28 in mountains in Colombia as they flew to play Atletico Nacional of Medellin in the […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Chapecoense, the up and coming Brazilian football club decimated by a plane crash, proudly strode back on the field Saturday in a new line-up for their first match since the tragedy. The team took the field amid intense public and media attention focusing on the 20,000-place Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Chapecoense, the Brazilian football club cruelly decimated by a plane crash, stride back on the field Saturday in a new line-up for their first match since the tragedy. Intense public and media attention was greeting the friendly match against Palmeiras, to be played in the 20,000-place Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – Tragic Brazilian football team Chapecoense are ready to turn the page with new players recruited in record time to play their first match on Saturday since its squad was wiped out in a plane crash. The friendly against Brazilian champions Palmeiras will be the final tribute to the 19 players and […]

Zurich (AFP) – Atletico Nacional collected the Fair Play prize at Monday's FIFA awards ceremony after the Colombian side requested Chapecoense receive the Copa Sudamericana title following a plane crash that decimated the Brazilian club. Chapecoense were flying to Medellin ahead of the first leg of the final when their plane crashed in the Colombian […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian football team Chapecoense said Thursday they will play in a friendly match on January 21, their first fixture since the squad was wiped out in a plane crash. Rebuilding the team after the tragedy which cut short their fairytale rise, the side will host Brazilian league opponents Palmeiras for the friendly. […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Brazilian football club Chapecoense on Wednesday presented the first three of 20 new players it plans to sign after its squad was wiped out in a deadly plane crash. The new hires smiled for the cameras wearing the team's green shirt after agreeing to move to the club. One of them, […]

Bogota (AFP) – Preliminary investigations have confirmed that a plane that crashed in the Colombian mountains last month killing 71 people including most of a Brazilian football team was out of fuel, officials said Monday. The LaMia airlines charter flight crashed just outside Medellin on November 28, virtually wiping out the Chapecoense Real football club […]

Sao Paulo (AFP) – Alan Ruschel, a defender with Brazil's Chapecoense football club who miraculously survived the plane crash which wiped out most of the team last month, says a seat swap saved his life. Crying in his first press conference since last month's disaster, Ruschel said Saturday he would do "everything" to get back […]

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazilian football team Chapecoense said Wednesday they will on January 29 play their first match since their squad was all but wiped out in an air crash. Chapecoense rose from obscurity to make it to the final of the Copa Sudamericana regional tournament, but the crash cut short their dream […]

La Paz (AFP) – Bolivia's defense minister said Friday a plane crash that killed 71 people traveling to Colombia aboard a Bolivian-registered charter plane was "murder," accusing the pilot of flying with insufficient fuel. "This was definitely no accident. This was a homicide. What happened in Medellin was murder," Defense Minister Reymi Ferreira told journalists. […]

Chapecó (Brazil) (AFP) – The bodies of 50 players, coaches and staff from a Brazilian football team wiped out in a plane crash in Colombia arrived home Saturday for a massive funeral. Fireworks lit up the sky over the stadium in Chapeco as two Brazilian Air Force planes transporting the team's coffins touched down at […]