>be small brazilian club >manage to meme a way into the final of the second-tier international competition of South America >have to face the current Libertadores champions, favored to win, on their stadium in Colombia >die on a plane crash with five survivors on the way to the game >suddenly everyone cares about the club >your opponent forfeits and asks that the title is given to you >receive 15000 new membership applications >won't get relegated for three years in your league >the top clubs in Argentina, Brazil and Portugal have pledged to give you players for free
Not to mention how devoted their fans are gonna be from now on.
Joshua James
All aboard! Choo choo!
Aaron White
I dare say they hit the earth.
Jayden Wilson
EL ECUATORIANO
Samuel Thomas
banging tune
Jaxson Jones
this is wrong
but also fun
Leo Phillips
they didn't fly so good
Isaiah Reyes
Since their city has 170k people, no one outside there actually supported the club and were literally in the 4th division 7 years ago, they already were.
Grayson Murphy
There is so much virtue signalling going on in the aftermath of this. Throw a fundraiser for them to sign a new squad and then get on with business as usual
I think this is still the mourning phase, as FIFA has declared the minute of silence for all games this weekend. But yeah, I definetely see virtual signaling from some clubs and medias. The spox for chape earlier today said he is very thankful for all the help but that the club will lift itself up by it`s own boots. I think he sees this too desu.
Connor Johnson
>receive 15000 new membership applications
What does this mean? Like applications to be a player? Or to be part of the fan club or something?
Jackson Reed
Socio-torcedor, it is like being in a club, you pay a fee, get better deals for products/tickets to games,stuff like that
Jackson Young
thats pretty neat
Kayden Scott
>plane crash with five survivors
Kevin Jackson
financially it is a pretty penny and this is only 2 days after the tragedy.
>The spox for chape earlier today said he is very thankful for all the help but that the club will lift itself up by it`s own boots. I think he sees this too desu.
Fair play, that makes me like them even more
Easton Gray
usually anual fee that gets you a seat/access in the home stadium to watch all regular season games, or at least better prices and preference for tickets
for reference top clubs tend to have ~100k paying full members
how many season ticket holders did they have? their stadium is pretty small. it was probably next to impossible to get a ticket to their games? now that people join that will be even harder. but i guess some people just want to support them financially.
Carson Clark
Which Argentine clubs are giving them players? I haven't heard about it on tv and they talk 24/7 about the crash
Kevin Price
Dunno but it was quite full in Sudamericana matches a couple weeks before the crash
Christian Carter
they had 9000 members/ticket holders. their stadium has a 19000 capacity. their town has less than 200,000 people. Because so many people from across Brazil want to become a club member, a new form of membership was put in place today. For 240R$/year you get to be a symbolic member. Basically you get a your chape ID card and that`s it.
Ryan Walker
They're a big club for you
Noah Nguyen
i read that riquelme is going to come out. (of retirement). to play for them. his mom asked him to help brazil and he can't say no to his mom jajajajaja here is the screen of his decision
Dylan Garcia
yeah, that makes perfect sense. just what i thought, basically a fundraiser. good for them!
The players and all haven`t even been buried yet bro. But I`m sure that when the time comes, the clubs who want to help will send players that want to go, and that chape will accept. In light of all this virtue signaling going on, there was an odd comment by the chape spox earlier in a press conference. He said he was very thankful for the help everyone is offering but chape is gonna lift itself up by its own bootstraps.
>Two legends of the game would consider playing for the team, say reports This is media clickbait lad.
Chase Ward
That might be true but that doesn't answer my question
Riquelme doesn't play for any Argentine club
I heard Riquelme about a month ago saying he wanted to start playing again, this could be a nice opportunity
Zachary Miller
yes sounds unlikely and kinda odd.
Joseph Harris
I think he is just tired exactly of the virtue signaling going on. But this club worked hard to where they got by the strength of their own small community so it`s not like there isn`t some kind of truth to what he said.
Anthony Walker
Yes Messi and Ronaldo will both join it for practically free
Brayden Hernandez
sorry my comment was regarding ronaldinho and riquelme. i mean i agree it is likely bs
Andrew Flores
Gotcha. Yeah, I don`t see how any major star would want to go live in chapeco. it`s simply much too small for them.
Aaron Cruz
There definitely is A LOT of virtue signaling going on right now
It's incredible how many people posting hashtags and shit in facebook when these things happen forget everything as quickly as the news stop mentioning it.
It's okay to feel sad for them even if you didn't know about them before, it was a tragedy, but some people are totally going out of their way to publicly demonstrate empathy and this is ridiculous, this is like using the tragedy to inflate your own value in the eyes of others, vanity.
I've actually attended one of their games two years ago when they played here against my favorite team and even i don't feel that sad, i mean it sucks, we all wish it didn't happen, let's remember the good things about them, hope that the new team carry on their legacy and move on.
Luis Brown
Totally, there are major clubs here using their pee-wee volleyball league match friendly to hashtag the shit out of this. It`s kind of disgusting.
Samuel Diaz
Does anyone find the whole thing a bit suspicious?
Colton Gomez
At first I was Bane? But then no.
Jack James
Holy crap why is this so funny
I laughed so hard I choked on air
Jeremiah Nelson
would you get in a plane again if you were a survivor of something like this?
Robert Roberts
flight 2933 was an inside job
Kayden Morgan
>dame tu mano y venga conmigo, ECUADOR! Kek
Nolan Gonzalez
>let's go in a trip to find the magical sounds of Ecuador >big house European EDM background music what did he mean by this
Kayden Lopez
Ecuador is white
Landon Adams
>tfw the trauma will never go away
It's like when you get a million dollar settlement for being raped with a knife and left for dead
Elijah Mitchell
They have a small fee which is $16.90 (Idk if it's per month or per year) that allows you to support the club even if you don't live in Chapecó. So that amount isn't much if you think well.
Parker Brown
They had woman in drivers seat. Couldn't parallel park the fucking plane.
Joshua Hernandez
In 'murrican terms fanclub membership is closest equivalent, poor mans season ticket. Discounts on tickets, fan apparel, flags, food on stadium, some pubs, bars or restaurants around the city.
Quite often it is also actual membership in the club as outside of North America teams are clubs, not franchises and clubs tend to have amateur and junior teams for local and regional amateur leagues. You know, lowest tiers of local league system pyramid. Top levels are professional and from there it goes gradually from semi-professional to amateurs... to drunken or hungover ultras kicking ball instead of ultras of other teams every once in a while.
John Jones
oh well, that was useless
Oliver Bennett
Will they really get those players though?
Oliver Rogers
always chileans who promote these memes, meanwhile these """""""""artists""""""" have more fans than any chilean musical enterprise ever
Plop
Lucas Butler
It`s up to whichever players are willing to go live in a very small town ameribro. I doubt any stars will go.
I'm sure Chapecoense will get plenty of visibility throughout the next year. Luiz Enrique is considering a friendly match with them and Benfica said it may loan their reserve players if Chape wants. I think a Colombian manager already wants to coach them too. Plus the money from the entire world on shirt sales and the fanclub membership.
Leo Moore
IIRC they are also receiving a 40 million euros donation from PSG.
