‘Chapecoense to be awarded Copa title’
CHAPECO: 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 (http://globoesporte.globo .com).
“In addition Chapecoense will receive the two million dollars in prize money.”
Tozzo was speaking after a wake was held at the club’s Arena Conda in southern Brazil.
The president of Brazilian football team Chapecoense was buried Sunday as fans paid their final tributes, trying to put behind them the worst moment in the club’s history.
Club president Sandro Pallaoro was on the plane that crashed almost a week ago as the club was traveling to Colombia to play the first of two games to determine the Copa Sudamericana champion - the No. 2 club tournament in Latin America.
HAMBURG CLIMB OFF BUNDESLIGA BOTTOM
Berlin Hamburg moved off the bottom of the Bundesliga table on Sunday after securing their first league win of the season with a 2-0 victory at fellow-strugglers Darmstadt.
RB Leipzig finish the weekend top of the table after their 2-1 win at home to Schalke on Saturday night extended their unbeaten run to 13 games -- a league record for a side in their first Bundesliga season. The victory saw them replace Bayern Munich, who won 3-1 at Freiburg on Friday thanks to two goals from Robert Lewandowski, to go three points clear of Carlo Ancelotti’s Bavarian giants.
At the other end of the table, Ingolstadt, who lost 2-1 at Bremen on Saturday, are now bottom after Hamburg’s Michael Gregoritsch scored his third goal in two games to give his side a first-half lead at Darmstadt.
When Serbia winger Filip Kostic whipped in a cross with half an hour gone, striker Gregoritsch produced a superb diving header. In the dying stages, Japan international Gotoku Sakai sprinted clear, then slipped the ball to Matthias Ostrzolek, who blasted home on his left foot.