But soccer's global conscience has some blind spots.The team they were going to play in Colombia has asked that Chapecoense be awarded the Copa in absentia. There's been an outpouring of support from global soccer for Chapecoense and their fans.(The Brazilian president has ordered three days of mourning.) In post-Olympics Brazil - a country with a lot of problems where soccer can be both a balm for and a reflection of gaping inequalities - the feel-good story was potent, and so is its tragic end. They were a minor team from a tiny town that had only broken into the top division of Brazilian play in the past few years, and their Copa run was widely celebrated. Chapecoense had been something of a national Cinderella story.The reason you're hearing about it now is because the plane contained the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, on their way to play a Colombian team in the finals of the Copa Sudamerica (South America's second-biggest tournament). A charter plane crashed in Colombia outside Medellin on Monday night, killing 76 people, according to Colombian police.For more newsletters, check out our newsletters page.Ī Cinderella tragedy Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty Images Just kidding: Mnuchin's a second-generation Goldman Sachs veteran who literally named his hedge fund for "the dunes near his beach house in the Hamptons." īy signing up, you agree to our terms. At least Trump appears poised to nominate a total Washington outsider, Steve Mnuchin, for Treasury secretary.Just wait until the would-be swamp drainers read about the sweetheart passes being offered for inauguration weekend for big-ticket donors.
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