Carrying a Brazilian football team. Crashed in Brazil in s mountainous area. There may be survivors so this is a survivor watch thread.
Carrying a Brazilian football team. Crashed in Brazil in s mountainous area. There may be survivors so this is a survivor watch thread.
76 dead, 5 survivors. Wooft.
Tragic.
It is, but the fact there are any survivors at all is a miracle.
Is there a breakdown on where most crashes occur? It feels like south America would be high on the list.
You'd be a brave man to get on an Indonesian internal flight.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer...8266186524&z=1Originally Posted by Kikó
Not that many crashes in the past 10 years. Seems like '85 to '06 was the golden era for horrific crashes.
Oh wow and it looks like most in South America were indeed in Colombia.
One of the team's defenders and a couple of its goalkeepers may have survived.
You would.
Especially if their names were Green and Silvestri.
FM in reality. Even a plane crash can be superkeepered.
Unfortunately the first choice goalkeeper has since died.
https://twitter.com/Baller__Street/s...98850904637440
That's brutal.
Christ, imagine picking up a cheap yellow card to get yourself suspended and then that.
It feels wrong reading the stories coming out about them. One became a father last week. There's a post on their Facebook page being at the airport and being excited about the match and their journey.
It will be interesting to see how they re-build. If it happened to a big club (another Munich-type scenario) they could just buy a new team over a couple of transfer windows and ride the sympathy to the bank, but Brazilian football isn't really capable of that.
Problem is it's taken out everyone, the coaching staff, the board, the local media, etc.
Isn't that like the college football team in the 1970's where there were only the few injured ones left that didn't travel. Though it's different in that they had new intakes of players and the ones killed would have been gone in a few years anyway.
Matthew McConaughey was in a rather sickly film about it.
They should all travel individually on separate charter flights.
PSG's owners are donating forty million quid to Chapecoense, and all other Brazilian sides are offering to loan them players for free.
Didn't they offer to 'donate' the Championship too? Not sure how they'd fare being a newly promoted side...
They've been made exempt from relegation for the next three years.
United are sending Marcus Rojo, Phil Jones, Maruane Fellaini and Wayne Rooney to help out.
Sunderland should run their coach off the road this weekend.
I'd happily see all the current LUFC squad burn to death if it meant promotion.
Liverpool have offered to take a 70% share of the grief.
Is that enough for them?
They'll probably murder Daniel Sturridge's cat to top it up I guess.
The other finalists (Atletico Nacional) have asked that the dead team be made champions. I would start milking this. Neymar was our big target for the new season, but I don't suppose he would want to come now...
This actually happened where my family grew up, Marshall University.
Just awful. My mom was 13 at the time. Said the entire town just stopped. Mind you, the city itself is basically wrapped around the University, so it was a crazy big deal.
I only ever knew them because of Randy Moss and Byron Leftwich (getting carried down the field he was playing so injured). Are they 1A?
Always meant to look up how close the film was to the actual story.
Funny enough, I lived in the area for both years Randy Moss was at Marshall and we had season tickets both of those years so I got to watch Randy play all of his college ball live
They were 1AA until Randy's last season when they moved up to 1A.
The film is decently close but some of the relationships I think were stretched a bit. Like the bit with the kid's father and his fiancee and her trying to give the ring back to him and all that shit was made up IIRC.
I know it was only eight (?) players that died in the Munich disaster, but what did United do at the time? Did they just muck on through with youth players and that?
Mucked through.While Busby recovered in hospital, his assistant Jimmy Murphy took temporary charge of team affairs (Murphy had not gone to Yugoslavia with the team, as he was managing the Welsh national side in a World Cup qualifier against Israel). United struggled in the League after Munich, winning only one of their last 14 matches and finishing in ninth place. However, they performed well in the FA Cup matches and made it to the final, but lost to Bolton 2–0. At the end of the season, UEFA offered The FA the opportunity to submit both United and the eventual champions Wolves for the 1958–59 European Cup, an unprecedented move, as a tribute to the victims, but the FA declined.
A period of rebuilding followed with several significant signings, including Albert Quixall, Maurice Setters, Denis Law, Pat Crerand, and Noel Cantwell between 1958 and 1962.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957–5...ed_F.C._season
They had 2 weeks off (6th is when it happened, next game on the 22nd), don't know if that was due to an international break though.
They signed a couple of new players for the 1958/59 season, but your squad was about fourteen deep then, so they just replaced the dead ones with reserves.
Maurice Setters
EDIT: Actually, looking him up again (to see was he Jack Charlton's assistant through his whole reign) threw up this little piece of madness of a league https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit...er_Association
But the fa declined.
Massive twats.
The final of that had goals in the 64th, 65th, 66th and 67th minute.Maurice Setters
EDIT: Actually, looking him up again (to see was he Jack Charlton's assistant through his whole reign) threw up this little piece of madness of a league https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit...er_Association
I somewhat respect that. The opportunity to earn that place was on the table and United couldn't take it.
Different society then, just thirteen years on from random violent death being an hourly occurrence in World War II. I doubt Liverpool were offering to loan them Roger Hunt FOR FREE within hours of the plane going down.
Argentina offering to loan players from their league for free too (Benfica as well @Kiko). It would be funny if they managed to build a mega team from this.
I'm really not sure about the loaning players stuff on the same day it happened.
'Here, look, everyone's dead, but we'll loan you this guy who's got a way better first touch anyway.'
Yeah hilarious. ��
How annoying would it be if they got loaned 3 goalkeepers?
Plane ran out of fuel, which is odd.
A friend of a friend has a pilots license and refuses to fly with any of the budget airlines (e.g. Ryanair) because one of the way they keep costs down is to have just enough fuel for the trip, and perhaps enough to get to the next airport over if there's a problem. I'm surprised this doesn't lead to more crashes occurring due to running out of fuel.
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Don't all pilots start at "budget" airlines nowadays??
I would have though that running out of fuel in this instance was more due to the fact that some idiot on the ground made a mistake whilst calculating/filling up.
I meant she won't use them when flying as a passenger, like if she's going on holiday. She doesn't actually work as a pilot but her family has a private jet that she flies. Apparently in Norway (she's Norwegian) it's quite common for people to learn how to fly a plane, almost as common as it is for people to learn to swim. Bizarre.
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