브라질 Chapecoense 축구팀 대참사

 

 

 

11월 28일(현지시간) 콜롬비아에서 브라질 Chapecoense 프로축구팀 선수 등 81명을 태운 여객기가 콜롬비아에서 추락하는 사고가 발생하여 75명의 사망자가 발생하였습니다.

이런 비극 속에서도 생존자는 축구 선수(Alan Luciano Ruschel)를 비롯한 3명과 축구 기자 1명 및 승무원 2명으로 알려졌습니다.

이외에 목숨을 건진 축구 선수는 골키퍼 Danilo, 수비수 JacksonFollmann입니다.

 

사고 비행기는 30일 콜롬비아에서 열리는 중남미 축구대회인 코파 수다메리카나 결승전에 출전하려던 브라질 샤페코엔시 Chapecoense 축구팀 선수들 및 코치, 경기 취재를 위해 동행한 브라질 축구 기자 21명, 그리고 승무원 9명 등 총 81명이 탑승하고 있었습니다.

 

사고 항공기는 볼리비아의 라미아 항공 2933편이었는데 이 비행기는 전세 여객기로 브라질에서 출발하여 콜롬비아 메데인으로 향하다가 메데인 공항에서 50여㎞ 떨어진 라우니온의 산악지대에 추락했습니다.

 

사고 원인은 조종사로부터 전기 계통의 고장이 발생했다는 비상 신호를 보낸 것으로 알려졌습니다.

 

이번 사고에서 가장 많은 희생자를 낸 샤페코엔시 축구팀1973년 창단된 이후 2014년에야 처음으로 브라질 1부리그에 진출했으며, 30일로 예정된 코파 수다메리카나 결승전은 모두 취소되었습니다.

 

(CNN)The fairy-tale rise of Brazil's Chapecoense -- from small football club to national heroes -- has been cut tragically short, leaving the country mourning the loss of one of its most endearing sports teams.

 

The plane carrying the Brazilian team to the biggest game in its history was en route from Bolivia to Colombia on Monday night when it crashed in Rionegro, near Medellin, killing 75 people.

 

Six people, including defender Alan Luciano Ruschel, survived the crash and were taken to local hospitals, according to authorities.

Chapecoense defender Alan Luciano Ruschel was among the survivors in the plane crash.

Chapecoense defender Alan Luciano Ruschel was among the survivors in the plane crash.

"The dream is over," Plinio David de Nes Filho, chairman of the club's board, told Brazil's TV Globo.

"Yesterday morning I was saying goodbye to them. They told me they were going in search of the dream, to make this dream a reality."

Tragic end

Chapecoense was supposed to play the first leg of its Copa Sudamericana final Wednesday against Colombia's Atletico Nacional from Medellin before its plane went down.

"Chapecoense was one of the most lovely fairy tales," Argentine sports journalist Martin Mazur told CNN.

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"Unlike what happens with the big Brazilian clubs, Chapecoense's humble story and its magnificent run in the Copa Sudamericana was naturally embraced by Brazilian football fans in general, becoming a fan's favorite.

"It was South America's Cinderella -- nobody could have predicted this macabre ending."

Cup dream

The Copa Sudamericana, the second-biggest intercontinental club competition in South America and the equivalent to Europe's Europa League, had provided the backdrop to Chapecoense's remarkable story.

The club, from Chapeco in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, was formed in the 1970s and played in the country's fourth tier as recently as 2007.

A team with few big names, apart from Cleber Santana, who once played for Atletico Madrid and Mallorca in Spain, it went toe-to-toe with the big boys of Brazilian football.

Full of grit, spirit and determination, Chapecoense was a relatively unfashionable team hoping to tread a path laid out by English champions Leicester City.

Passenger plane involved in a crash in Colombia

 

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'A very great tragedy'

"It's very hard, it's hard to speak, I don't even know what to say," Ivan Tozzo, the club's vice president, told Globo. "It's a team we all love and been following for years.

Plane carrying 81 crashes in Colombia

 

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"I have been working for the club for many years and know what we've been through.

"Just as we had made it, I will not say to the top, but to have national prominence, a tragedy like this happens. It is very difficult, a very great tragedy. We have to trust in God."

Adventure

This season had been full of adventure, with Chapecoense having traveled to Argentina twice to defeat Independiente and San Lorenzo on its way to the final, as well as scoring an aggregate victory over Colombian side Junior.

Victory in the final of the Copa Sudamericana would not only have been the greatest triumph in Chapecoense's history but would have allowed it to compete in next season's Copa Libertadores, the most prestigious club competition on the continent.

 

Ninth in Brazil's top flight, it was supposed to finish its domestic season against Atlético Mineiro on Sunday before a return game with Atletico Nacional on December 6.

That game was supposed to take place in Curitiba, some 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) away because the team's stadium, Arena Condá, does not have the capacity or infrastructure to host a major final.

Tributes pour in for Chapecoense after plane crash

'Incredible run'

"Chapecoense is a relatively young club, compared to the more well-established giants of the Brazilian game, and it seemed to be coming of age this season," football journalist and author Euan McTear told CNN.

"The club returned to the top flight of Brazilian football just three years ago after a three-decade hiatus, and a number of the players that led them on this incredible run to the final of the Copa Sudamericana were the same players who helped them win promotion from the Serie B in 2013.

 

"I think that is why people warmed to them and to their success, because they were witnessing before their eyes the progression of a united group of players and of friends."

Former Brazil striker Romario expressed his sympathy on Twitter, writing: "I am deeply saddened by this tragedy. My solidarity goes out to the friends and family members of the athletes, the journalists, the technical team and the crew. #forcachape."

Not a first in football

This week's crash is not the first time a football team has been involved in an air disaster.

In 1949, 18 Torino players were killed in a crash near Turin, Italy, as the club returned from a game in Lisbon, Portugal. The accident is remembered every year by the club's fans at the scene of the crash -- the Superga hillside by the city's iconic basilica.

In 1958, eight Manchester United players lost their lives when their flight crashed on the third attempt to take off after refueling in Munich, West Germany, as the club returned from knocking Red Star Belgrade out of the European Cup.

In 1993, 18 members of the Zambia national team died in a plane crash en route to a World Cup qualifier in Senegal. The accident killed all 30 people on board.

CNN's Karla Pequenino and Marilia Brocchetto in Atlanta also contributed to this report.

 

* 출처: cnn