Top Brasileirao clubs to offer free loan deals to Chapecoense

Brazilian clubs including champions Palmeiras
want Chapecoense to be granted special
measures after a plane crash devastated their
team.
Brazil's top clubs have pledged to offer to loan
players to Chapecoense for free after the majority
of their team were killed in a plane crash.
A total of 71 people have been pronounced dead
by authorities after a chartered flight carrying
members of the first team and a number of
journalists came down in the hills in in the Cerro
Gordo area in Colombia.
Heaven welcomes a team of champions
Brasileirao clubs - including Corinthians, Santos
and the newly crowned champions Palmeiras -
published a statement of solidarity on Tuesday in
which they offered to provide players to
Chapecoense and called for them to be made
exempt from relegation for the next three
seasons.
"Though we are aware of the irreparable damage
caused by this terrible event, the clubs
understand that now is the moment for unity,
support and assistance for Chapecoense," the
statement read.
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"In this regard, the clubs announce solidarity
measures towards Chapecoense, which will
consist of, among other things:
"(I) Free loan players for the 2017 season;
"(II) A formal request to the Brazilian Football
Confederation for Chapecoense not to be subject
to relegation to Serie B of the Brazilian
championship for the next three seasons. If
Chapecoense finish the championship in the
bottom four, the team in 16th place would be
relegated.
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"This is the minimum gesture of solidarity that is
at our disposal at present, but it is endowed with
the most sincere objective of reconstructing this
institution of Brazilian football, which has been
lost."