(FILES) This file photo taken on November 23, 2016 shows Brazil’s Chapecoense players posing for pictures during their 2016 Copa Sudamericana semifinal second leg football match against Argentina’s San Lorenzo held at Arena Conda stadium, in Chapeco, Brazil. A plane carrying 81 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, crashed late on November 28, 2016 near the Colombian city of Medellin, officials said. The airport that serves Medellin said that among the 72 passengers and nine crew were members of Chapecoense Real, a Brazilian football club that was supposed to play against Colombia’s Atletico Nacional Wednesday in the South American Cup finals. / AFP PHOTO
Chapecoense have won their first title since most of their team were killed in a plane crash. Only three of the Brazilian club’s players survived November’s crash, when 71 of 77 people on board died.
Top clubs from Brazil and Argentina offered to loan players to Chapocense, who signed 25 new players this season and promoted nine from the youth team. They lifted the Santa Catarina state championship on Sunday for the second straight year, despite losing to Avai.
Chapecoense were beaten 1-0 in Sunday’s final play-off, but their 1-0 victory in the first leg meant their better record over the course of the season was decisive.Costa: Any club would want a striker like me.
Diego Costa knows any team would want a striker like him after passing a half century of league goals for Chelsea.
Costa said: “Any club with a striker who is going to get 20 goals regularly, they are going to be up there competing for whatever competition they are involved in’’.
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