Brazil Footballers Mourning

Brazil starts three days of national mourning on Friday for football legend Pele, the three-time World Cup winner widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, who has died at age 82

Fans also flocked to leave flowers outside the stadium of the club where Pele spent most of his career, Santos, as the southeastern city declared seven days of mourning for its hero

Diego Maradona and Pele are considered the two best footballers in history.

Packed to capacity, the stadium where Chapecoense Real were thrilling their fans just 10 days ago held an anguished tribute to the 50 players, coaches and staff whose coffins were laid out on the pitch.

Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history.

Fans of Brazil's Chapecoense football club whose team was wiped out in a Colombian air crash crammed into the home stadium late Wednesday for tearful prayers around the empty pitch.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gave Marcelo permission to return to Rio de Janeiro to be with his family, but the player said he preferred to mourn alongside his teammates.

One in four beers consumed in Brazil is linked to football -- before the match, around the TV or in post-game celebration or mourning, according to a study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a Brazilian economics institute.

The football world, gathered in Brazil for Friday's World Cup draw, mourned the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

England manager Roy Hodgson took time out from prepraing his side to face Brazil in a Wembley friendly on Wednesday to remember the victims of the Munich air disaster.

The city of Kolkata plunged into depression on Sunday after favourites Brazil were knocked out by France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Brazil soccer fans mourn team's 2-1 loss to Argentina

Brazil starts three days of national mourning on Friday for football legend Pele, the three-time World Cup winner widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, who has died at age 82

Fans also flocked to leave flowers outside the stadium of the club where Pele spent most of his career, Santos, as the southeastern city declared seven days of mourning for its hero

Diego Maradona and Pele are considered the two best footballers in history.

Packed to capacity, the stadium where Chapecoense Real were thrilling their fans just 10 days ago held an anguished tribute to the 50 players, coaches and staff whose coffins were laid out on the pitch.

Air crash investigators in Colombia sought Wednesday to piece together the terrifying final moments aboard a charter jet that crashed while carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match in its history.

Fans of Brazil's Chapecoense football club whose team was wiped out in a Colombian air crash crammed into the home stadium late Wednesday for tearful prayers around the empty pitch.

Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari gave Marcelo permission to return to Rio de Janeiro to be with his family, but the player said he preferred to mourn alongside his teammates.

One in four beers consumed in Brazil is linked to football -- before the match, around the TV or in post-game celebration or mourning, according to a study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation, a Brazilian economics institute.

The football world, gathered in Brazil for Friday's World Cup draw, mourned the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela.

England manager Roy Hodgson took time out from prepraing his side to face Brazil in a Wembley friendly on Wednesday to remember the victims of the Munich air disaster.

The city of Kolkata plunged into depression on Sunday after favourites Brazil were knocked out by France in the quarter-finals of the World Cup.

Brazil soccer fans mourn team's 2-1 loss to Argentina