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Chapecoense: Football team's fairy-tale rise ends in tragedy
(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 Monday night from Bolivia to Colombia when it crashed in Rionegro, near Medellin, killing 75 people.
Six people survived the crash, according to authorities. Chapecoense defender Alan Luciano Ruschel was among the survivors.
"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. Read More
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