The Santo Antonio Cathedral, is pictured with a black banner in tribute to players of Chapecoense soccer team in Chapeco, Brazil, November 29, 2016. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker
CHAPECO, Brazil (Reuters) - Thousands of grieving fans in green and white filled the Chapecoense stadium in remote southern Brazil on Tuesday, singing their team's praises and chanting one by one the names of players who lost their lives in a plane crash a day earlier.
"We are champions!" they cried as club staff and relatives of the deceased joined hands in a circle at midfield, part of an impromptu ceremony that swung between mourning for the lives lost and pride in the unlikely feats of their fallen heroes.
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