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Amputee goalkeeper Follmann to be given job by Chapecoense

Chapecoense will hand a role to goalkeeper Jackson Follmann, who had part of a leg amputated after surviving the plane crash that devastated the club last month.

Follmann was on board when a plane carrying the Brazilian club's squad, technical commission and a number of journalists for the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional crashed en route to Medellin two days before the match was due to take place, killing 71 people on board.

Chapecoense have since been awarded the title by South American football's governing body CONMEBOL, with the club's new president Plinio David de Nes Filho raising the trophy during the draw for the 2017 Copa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores on Wednesday.