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Chapecoense signing up new players after air disaster

Chapecoense are preparing for the upcoming 2017 season by signing up players as the tragedy-hit club attempt to recover from last year's plane disaster.

A plane carrying the Brazilian 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 in November.

Centre-back Neto, full-back Alan Ruschel and reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follmann survived the crash.

Chapecoense - who were named winners of the Copa Sudamericana following the disaster and added to this year's Copa Libertadores competition - are now trying to put a team together, with some help from teams around the world, ahead of their season-opening clash against Joinville in the Primeira Liga on January 26.