Fox Sports Brazil honors plane crash victims with powerful 90 minutes of silence
Class has a way of shining through during the most tragic times.
Fox Sports Brazil paid powerful tribute to club team Chapecoense by airing 90 minutes of silence when the team should have been on the pitch playing Colombia's Atletico Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final Wednesday evening.
Chapecoense, from Chapeco, Brazil, was enjoying a dream season. But a shocking tragedy canceled Wednesday's match when the team plane crashed en route to Colombia on Monday, killing 19 Chapecoense players and rocking the soccer world.
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Fox Sports Brazil's creative, sensitive tribute quickly gained attention on social media, where it was shared using the hashtag #90MinutosDeSilêncio. (A soccer match, for those unaware, lasts 90 minutes.)
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Well done, Fox Sports Brazil. That's a moving gesture, indeed.
Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
