Colombia Football Club Says Opponents In Plane Crash Copa Sudamericana Should Take Title! (See Why)

In case you've not heard or you are unaware. Brazilian football club Chapencoense were involved in a plane crash on their way to a Copa Sudamericana clash and insists their opponents should take the title. See why;

Colombian club Atletico Nacional called on football authorities 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 made the request to regional football confederation CONMEBOL in a statement.

It asked of CONMEBOL “that the Copa Sudamericana title be handed to Chapecoense Football Association as an honorary trophy for its great loss, and as a posthumous homage to the victims of the fatal accident that has put our sport in mourning.”

Chapecoense and Atletico Nacional were supposed to have faced off Wednesday in the first leg of the final of the Copa Sudamericana, the second most prestigious club football tournament in South America after the Copa Libertadores.

CONMEBOL said in a statement earlier that the match was suspended until further notice.

“We are in contact with the authorities and are waiting for official reports.

” A source close to CONMEBOL told AFP it was “very unlikely” that the final would ever be played.

Nine members of the Brazilian team did not travel to Colombia.