The possibility of this meeting was raised in 2017 and the clubs are only now meeting.
Chapecoense's week has started off busy. The club has two matches on Wednesday, one in São Paulo for the quarterfinals of the Copa do Brasil and another in Italy for a friendly against Torino. Part of the squad has already left for Europe, heading to Turin, the city where Cristiano Ronaldo lives, now that he has returned from vacation and reported to Juventus.
The fact that brought the two teams together in a friendly is the connection due to the tragedies that both teams went through, losing their squad to a plane crash, that of the Italian team in 1949. The possibility of this meeting was raised in 2017 and only now have the clubs come together. gather.
The game between Chape and Torino takes place on Wednesday at 21:30 pm (local time). Before the match, the Brazilians participate in a program that involves Alan Ruschel and Jakson Follmann, survivors of the accident in 2016. On Tuesday, after landing in Turin, in addition to the two players, survivor of the Colombian air tragedy and Plínio David de Nes Filho , president of Chape, will hold a press conference in the press room of the Grande Torino Olympic stadium. At 19pm (local time), the team will hold an open training session at the Philadelphia stadium.
On Wednesday, the Chape delegation will visit the Museum of Grande Torino and the Granata Legend, made in honor of the victims of the tragedy with the Italian club. And the next day, they head to the place where the Torino plane crashed on May 4, 1949 and killed 31 people, where they will pay tribute to the Invincibles of Grande Torino, as the team is known.
By Gazeta Press
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