Brazil’s wretched year got worse on November 28th when a chartered plane crashed into muddy slopes near Medellín, Colombia’s second-biggest city. Most of the 77 people on board were Brazilians; all but six were killed. Among the passengers were 22 players from Chapecoense, an unglamorous football team from southern Brazil. It had been enjoying a run of success that reminded people of Leicester City’s unlikely conquest of England’s Premier League last season. The team was on its way to play its biggest-ever game, the final of the Copa Sudamericana, a continental club competition, against Atlético Nacional, a team from Medellín. Investigators have not established the cause of the crash. A leaked audio tape captures a pilot telling air-traffic controllers that the plane was running out of fuel and suffering from electrical failure. Brazil’s president declared three days of national mourning. Several players from Atlético Nacional asked that the Copa Sudamericana be given to the grief-stricken Brazilian football club.
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