Football 2016 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,141]

Apparently Danilo has died as well..

 

 

[NikolaB 432]

Life is just not fair. Not fair 

[heywoodu 15,141]

Now reading reports that Neto (defender) has been found alive by rescue workers.

[kungshamra71 892]

Portuguese news state that one of Chapecoense players that played in Sporting Clube de Portugal, Marcelo Boeck, did not board the plane because he asked for a dismiss to celebrate his birthday.... 

 

Can't even imagine his feelings right now....

 

http://www.dn.pt/desporto/interior/ex-guarda-redes-do-sporting-escapou-a-acidente-de-aviao-na-colombia-5524716.html

Edited November 29, 2016 by kungshamra71

[hckošice 14,834]

some biggest air crash tragedies, in which athletes have died.

 

8th November 1948 -

A small Benchcraft 18 was lost in the English Channel. On it´s board there were a half of the Czechoslovakia Ice Hockey National Team travelling for a friendly match in London, the first half of the team was alerady in London. The fly dissapeared aronud a hour after departure, just after the pilot announced troubles because poor visibility over the channel..The wreckage was never found. The Ice hockey world lost many great names that day Zdeňek Jarkovský, Miloslav Pokorný, Vilibald Šťovík, Zdeňek Švarc, the first slovak player in the Czechoslvakian NT Ladislav Troják and Karel Stibor.

 

4th May 1949-

A plane with 5 times Italian Football Champions AC Torino was returning from a friendly match, but because of storm and very poor visibility crashed into the back of the complex of the Basilica of Superga on top of the hill in Turin. The accident killed all 31 persons, including 18 players of AC Torino.

 

6th Februry 1958-

After qualifying for the semifinals of the Europan Club Champions, the famous Matt Busby team Manchester United had a tragic accident during the stopover in Munich. After 2 first departure failures because of mechanical problems came the 3rd and worst. The snow started to fall heavily and the plane lost speed which meant the take-off was not possible. The machine broke through the fence and crashed into a house near the airport, broke and the flames engulfed him. 22 of the 44 people on board did not survive. among them for example, the famous Bobby Charlton.

 

15th February 1961-

A crach of the Boeing 707 near the national airport in the Belgian capital of Brussels, killed all 72 people, including also the USA national figure skating team, who had to attend the World Championships in Prague, former Czechoslovakia. According to eyewitnesses, Boeing unexpectedly began to rise and then fell in near field and the wreckage suddenly started fire. Also one local farmer lost his life in this accident when some pieces of the plane hit his head.

 

2nd October 1970-

In the USA, two aircraft boarding American football team of the State University of Wichita had to attend the city of Logan where they were expected to met the Utah University team. They were 2 planes called "Gold" and "Black", one for the Starting A-Team and the second for the "B" team. The accident happened to the first mentioned fly, few minutes after departure the plane crashed in the mountainous party of Colorado near Denver. The pilot who had no License for driving such type of aircraft flew too low and grabbed the top of trees and crashed killing immediately all 29 passengers, only 2 surviving athletes succumbed also later from their injuries in the hospital.

 

13th October 1972-

Uruguayan Plane that flewed to Chile in bad weather crashed in the Andes. 45 peoples including the Uruguayan Rugby team were on board. 12 passengers died immediately, 17 others succumbed to their injuries and because of subsequent avalanche fall. 16 peoples survived the accident but after 10 days they learn that the official search were stopped. They survived remaining 2 months only because they ate the dead. The accident was later documented in a book and in 1993 even in a movie.

 

6th October 1976-

A bomb placed by the opponents of the Castro regime, exploded onboard of a Cuban Airlines plane killing all 24 Cuban fencers.

 

13th December 1977-

29 members of the USA university of Evansville Basketball team died in a plane crash who were heading to Nashville for a match against the Middle Tennessee University. Very bad weather with heavy rain and thig fog were the reason of the tragedy. The fly exploded already 90 seconds after the start killing immediately 26 passengers, remaining 3 died later succumbing to their injuries.

 

8th December 1987-

Alianza Lima football club of Peru won away match against Deportivo Pucallapa and advanced into the first place of the National championship. The team was returning home by charter plane, unfortunately the players never returned home. The plane crashed in the Pacific Ocean 11km from the Lima Airport. The pilot became the only survivor.

 

7th September 2011-

The crash tragedy of the Russian Ice Hockey KHL team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. From the 45 passengers travelling to Minsk in Belarus for the KHL seasons opener survived only 1 servisman. All players and team stuff died in this accident. Many great players and Ice hockey world stars from different countries including Ruslan Salei of Belarus, Stefan Liv of Sweden, Karlis Skrastins of Latvia, Czechs Jan Marek, Josef Vašíček and Karel Rachunek and the top scorer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic tournament Slovakian super star Pavol Demitra.

The aircraft ran off the runway before lifting off, struck a tower mast, caught fire and crashed 2 km (1.2 mi) from Tunoshna Airport on the Volga River bank.

 

Another Crash tragedies with sportspersons:

1969 Famous Boxer Rocky Marciano

1993 All Zambia Football National Team

2007 Colin McRae World Rally Champion

 

 

Today 29th November 2016-

Colombia Plane crash of the Brazilian Football team Chapecoense

A charter aircraft carrying 81 people including members of Brazil's Chapecoense football team has crashed en route to Medellin airport killing 76 passengers.

 

This was a very sad post, but I had to do it in memory of all persons we all sport fans lost

 

 

[Felipe 52]

I still don't believe in this, a "small" team which cames from 4th division to 1st division in 4 years, living their dream, people who were on their apex as football players, coaches, journalists, going to Sudamericana final... and this happens i expect this is only nightmares and nothing of this is true.

 

Força, Chape. Stay strong.

[Henry_Leon 1,397]

Tragic end for this for this "unknown" (until recently) team.  

Very sad day for all football world

 

RIP 

ForçaChape

 

[dcro 10,210]

Terrible news.

[vlad 359]

nothing to be said...i'm surprised actually that 5 people survived of this hell ...

 

 

[kungshamra71 892]

54 minutos atrás, hckosice disse:

 

4th May 1949-

A plane with 5 times Italian Football Champions AC Torino was returning from a friendly match, but because of storm and very poor visibility crashed into the back of the complex of the Basilica of Superga on top of the hill in Turin. The accident killed all 31 persons, including 18 players of AC Torino.

 

 

 

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This one happened after a match here in Lisbon with Benfica, and it is still remembered by Benfica every year... 

Edited November 29, 2016 by kungshamra71