Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Someday soccer will return to Chapecoense, as at Man Utd (The Associated Press)

FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1958 file photo snow falls on the wreck of British European Airways Flight 609 which crashed on take-off at Munich, Germany. On board the plane was the Manchester United football team, nicknamed the Busby Babes, along with supporters and journalists. Twenty-three of the 44 passengers on board the aircraft died in the crash. (AP Photo/File)

Someday, somehow, soccer will likely return at Chapecoense. Through the grieving and after the funerals of the 19 team members who died in a plane crash, soccer will probably be played again, just as it was at Manchester United and Torino following similar tragedies. ''For so many years I was at the heart of Manchester United's effort to maintain its place in football,'' England great Bobby Charlton wrote in his 2007 autobiography.


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