Thousands squeezed into Chapeco's cathedral and even more packed a stadium to mourn the death of 71 people in a plane crash, 19 of them members of the Chapecoense club who had been on the brink of soccer greatness. ''To lose (almost) all of them in such a tragic way, totally destroyed our city and each one of us,'' Carla Vilembrini said late Tuesday, standing outside Santo Antonio Cathedral. Chapecoense's fantasy season ended on a muddy Colombian mountainside late Monday when a chartered aircraft crashed south of Medellin.
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