Brazilian football club Chapecoense played on Saturday their first match since the tragic plane crash that killed 19 of the team’s players on November 29 while en route to Colombia for the final of the Copa Sudamericana. Chapecoense’s goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, who survived the crash but had part of his right leg amputated, held the Copa Sudamericana trophy while seated in a wheelchair, ahead of the friendly game. /CFP Photo

Three survivors of the airplane crash watched their new team, whose most members are now loaned from other clubs, as they took Palmeiras, the last club Chapecoense played against before the November crash. /CFP Photo

Alan Ruschel (front-R), another survivor, embraced relatives of players who died in the airplane crash, at the Arena Conda stadium, Chapecoense’s home ground, in southern Brazil before the match. /CFP Photo