Columbia plan crash: Opponent team want to dedicate Sudamericana title to Brazilian players as tribute

Colombian club Atletico Nacional called on football authorities on Tuesday to hand the Copa Sudamericana title to their opponents, Brazilian side Chapecoense, as a tribute to the team’s players killed in a plane crash.

The Colombian side asked regional football confederation CONMEBOL “that the Copa Sudamericana title be handed to Chapecoense Football Association as an honorary trophy for its great loss,” Nacional said in a statement. 

After a plan crash kills members of a Brazilian football team, a look at other athletes who died in air accidents pic.twitter.com/fQIY45bNxT

— AFP news agency (@AFP) November 30, 2016