
These were going to be the games of their lives for players on the humble Brazilian club Chapecoense. The dream ended late Monday night when a charter flight carrying the club sliced into a Colombian hillside, killing 75 and scattering six survivors among the snarled remains of wings and fuselage. The flight was bound for Medellin, Colombia, and a first-leg match against Colombia's Atletico Nacional, which was to be followed a week later by the second and decisive game in Brazil - the biggest the southern city of Chapeco and its 200,000 residents would ever see.
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