Someday soccer will return to Chapecoense, as at Man Utd
LONDON — Someday, somehow, soccer will likely return at Chapecoense.
Through the grieving and after the funerals of the 19 team members who died in a plane crash, soccer will probably be played again, just as it was at Manchester United and Torino following similar tragedies.
“For so many years I was at the heart of Manchester United’s effort to maintain its place in football,” England great Bobby Charlton wrote in his 2007 autobiography. “There was always one great hope: the return to greatness of my beloved club.”
Chapecoense, a team from the small Brazilian town of Chapeco, was on its way to play in the Copa Sudamericana final — South America’s second biggest club tournament — when the charter airline carrying the players, staff and media crashed into a Colombian mountainside, killing 71 on board.