South American football confederation CONMEBOL agreed Monday to award the Copa Sudamericana to Brazilian club Chapecoense, whose group turned into worn out in a aircraft crash whilst heading to the final.
“CONMEBOL awards the title for the 2016 Copa Sudamericana championship to Chapecoense,” which includes the $2.zero million in prize cash, the confederation said in a statement.
The unsung membership became having a fairy tale season until the constitution plane flying it to the biggest suit in its records ran out of gasoline and smashed into the mountains in northwestern Colombia every week ago, killing 71 humans.
The aspect turned into heading to play the primary leg of the very last towards Colombian club Atletico Nacional within the city of Medellin.
Nacional answered to the crash by calling for Chapecoense to be granted the Copa Sudamericana, the second highest membership soccer name in South the USA.
The confederation stated it had heeded Nacional’s request in determining to hand the name to Chapecoense.
It offered Nacional its CONMEBOL Centenary fair Play award.
“There may be no more demonstration of the spirit of knowledge and fair play... than the consideration and recognize shown by way of Atletico Nacional to its brothers in Chapecoense soccer club,” the assertion stated.
The small Brazilian metropolis of Chapeco held a big funeral on Saturday for its crew after the victims’ coffins arrived home, every draped within the club’s green and white flag.
A minute’s silence for the group become scheduled to be held before each Champions League and Europa League recreation this week.