"Todos somos del Chape" Marcelo Tinelli arrancó el programa hablando del trágico accidente

Moment broadcast on Tuesday, November 29, 2016, on Showmatch. Everything changed. Marcelo Tinelli began Showmatch today completely moved by the tragedy at Chapecoense. The program began with a version of "We Are the Champions" sung a cappella by Freddie Mercury while emotional images of the team, the plane crash that claimed the lives of almost the entire squad, and the various tributes that took place around the world today were shown. "We're going to start a different program today. As a football man, what happened tonight never ceases to surprise me. It has us all dismayed. It was very powerful. In my case, as vice president of San Lorenzo, because the team that suffered this terrible tragedy was the team that faced San Lorenzo last Wednesday... This is one of those tragedies that will go down in the history of world football," Marcelo began, unable to hide his emotion. The host acknowledged that "the first thing I did was turn on Colombian Radio Caracol, which provided tremendous live coverage. The first news reports said there were no deaths because the plane hadn't caught fire. Then, everything we saw, those heartbreaking images. A ton of images of life and death come to mind." "Angeleri's ball came to mind, the last ball saved by Chapecoense goalkeeper Danilo, whose life unfortunately couldn't be saved during surgery. Look at the story of the goalkeeper, with his son Lorenzo, walking through the stadium. I thought about how grateful an entire team was to God for having saved that ball, and today He finds them in one of the most impressive tragedies that has ever happened," the host reflected. Tinelli clarified that "there was a lot of talk about whether the San Lorenzo squad, if they reached the final, would be on that flight. No, but it still hit us hard. I'm left with the image of what Liverpool's stadium in England was like. It was a terrible tragedy. We just want to wish them all the strength in the world from here." "I wanted to start this way in commemoration of the 71 dead, at this tremendous moment that world football is experiencing. I wanted to start it this way, because otherwise I wouldn't be able to release these feelings of life and death that are pervading the world today," Marcelo concluded. Go Chapecoense!