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Rio De Janeiro: Chapecoense have accepted an invitation from Barcelona to play a friendly against the Spanish champions next August, the Brazilian club’s president said on Friday.<\/p>\nRio De Janeiro: Chapecoense have accepted an invitation from Barcelona to play a friendly against the Spanish champions next August, the Brazilian club’s president said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Barcelona proposed the match after most of the Brazilian club’s players and staff were killed in a plane crash in Colombia last week, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n
“It makes us very happy, it will be a privilege to play in the match,” Chapecoense president Ivan Tozzo told Radio RAC1 on Friday.<\/p>\n
“We are very thankful to Barcelona and the Spanish people for sending us this invitation. Without doubt we are going to play in the match.”<\/p>\n
The clubs will contest the Joan Gamper trophy, an annual fixture played at the Camp Nou a week before the start of the La Liga season.<\/p>\n
Nineteen Chapecoense players and all of their coaching staff died when a plane in which they were travelling crashed just before its planned destination near Medellín on November 28.<\/p>\n
Most of the club’s directors and 20 journalists were also killed.<\/p>\n
The Brazilian first division club had been due to play Atletico Nacional de Medellin in the two-match Copa Sudamericana final on November 30 and December 7.<\/p>\n
Chapecoense were this week awarded the title at the request of Atletico Nacional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rio De Janeiro: Chapecoense have accepted an invitation from Barcelona to play a friendly against the Spanish champions next August, the Brazilian club’s president said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Barcelona proposed the match after most of the Brazilian club’s players and staff were killed in a plane crash in Colombia last week, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n
“It makes us very happy, it will be a privilege to play in the match,” Chapecoense president Ivan Tozzo told Radio RAC1 on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1958,19321,12975,466,19322],"class_list":["post-30491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news","tag-barcelona","tag-chapecoense","tag-football-news","tag-spanish-champions"],"yoast_head":"\n