05/11/2024

The CBF asked Chapecoense to play despite their accident.

Jueves 01 de Diciembre del 2016

The CBF asked Chapecoense to play despite their accident.

According to the club's interim president, the CBF wants the match "to be a great party" and for them to complete the team with young players and "those who are left".

According to the club's interim president, the CBF wants the match "to be a great party" and for them to complete the team with young players and "those who are left".

The CBF wants Chapecoense to use the players who did not travel and those from their lower divisions to complete the team. | Source: AFP

The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) has asked Chapecoense, the team that lost almost all of its squad in an airplane accident, to play the last league match.

Chapecoense was supposed to play against Atletico Mineiro in the thirty-eighth and final round of the Brazilian Championship, but it was postponed for a week due to the seven days of mourning decreed by the CBF for the Chapecoense tragedy. Both teams had already secured their respective goals for the next season: the Chapecoense team was mathematically qualified for the Copa Sudamericana and the Belo Horizonte team for the Copa Libertadores.

"That match has to be played, it has to be a great celebration," said CBF President Marco Polo del Nero to Chapecoense's interim president, Ivan Tozzo, as stated by the latter in a press conference held today at the Arena Conda stadium, in Chapecó. Of the 71 deaths registered in the accident, 19 were Chapecoense players, as well as other members of the coaching staff and the board, leaving the team virtually decimated.

Tozzo replied to Del Nero that the team did not have the eleven players necessary to play the match, to which the president of CBF responded: "Yes, you do. You have the players from the youth categories and those who stayed." Brazilian clubs have offered players to Chapecoense for the next season. Despite the request, the CBF has committed to respecting the decision made by Chapecoense and Atletico Mineiro. EFE

Nine Chapecoense players survived the tragedy because they did not travel. | Source: AFP
Chapecoense fans paid homage to their players this Wednesday at their stadium, at the time they were supposed to play the Copa Sudamericana. | Source: AFP

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