Highlights 1 Chapecoense have been told they will be named Copa Sudamericana champions. 2 In addition Chapecoense will receive the two million dollars in prize money. Five days after most of their squad were killed in an air crash in Colombia, Chapecoense have been told they will be named Copa Sudamericana champions. "CONMEBOL (South American football's governing body) is going to declare Chapecoense winners of the Copa Sudamericana," the club's acting president Ivan Tozzo was quoted as saying on the TV Globo website (globoesporte.globo.com). Six people survived, including three members of the club, en route to the Copa Sudamericana final against local side Atletico Medellin, the biggest game in Chapecoense's history.
Source: India Today December 04, 2016 07:26 UTC