Praying for a soccer team

Chapecoense soccer team

I dedicate my post today to the Chapecoense Brazilian soccer team, all of whom were killed yesterday in a plane crash in Columbia. This team is a true story of rags to riches as they got promoted from the 4th Division of the Brazilian League to the top Division, and were heading to play a cup final in Columbia. Two players survived with serious injuries, and Brazil proclaimed three days of mourning in memory of the victims. In May 1949, the entire Torino soccer team from Italy died in a plane crash in Superga, near Turin. Back in February 1958 the Manchester United soccer team was also involved in a plane crash in Munich, Germany, when half of the team perished. In 1993 the entire Zambia soccer team also died in a plane crash near Gabon. Let us pray today for the victims of the Chapecoense team and their families and many fans.