LOOK: Scenes from Chapecoense's emotional public memorial held Saturday
The club's fans and more attended a public memorial on Saturday
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It hasn't even been a week, but the pain still stings just like it did moments after finding out. That horrific, tragic plane crash on Monday in Colombia, which carried Brazilian soccer club Chapecoense and resulted in 71 deaths, won't go away anytime soon. And it's not meant to go away. For everyone who lost their lives in the crash, they aren't forgotten, but remembered and honored.
On Saturday, fans of the team filled the stadium in southern Brazil during an emotional public memorial in the rain. Here are just some of the powerful and captivating images from the event, which saw FIFA president Gianni Infantino in attendance. Take a look:
Soldiers carry into the stadium under heavy rain the coffins of the members of the Chapecoense Real football club team killed in a plane crash in Colombia, in Chapeco, Santa Catarina, southern Brazil, on December 3, 2016. The bodies of 50 players, coaches and staff from a Brazilian football team tragically wiped out in a plane crash in Colombia arrived home Saturday for a massive funeral.
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Fans come to the wake to pay tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium on December 03, 2016 in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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Relatives mourn over the coffin with the remains of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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Relatives of the members of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real pay tribute at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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Fans cry while paying tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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A young mascot pays tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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FIFA president Gianni Infantino (C) attends the funeral of the members of the Chapecoense Real football club team killed in a plane crash in Colombia at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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Military police soldiers pay tribute to the players of Brazilian team Chapecoense Real at the club's Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, on December 03, 2016. The players were killed in a plane accident in the Colombian mountains. Players of the Chapecoense team were among the 77 people on board the doomed flight that crashed into mountains in northwestern Colombia. Officials said just six people were thought to have survived, including three of the players. Chapecoense had risen from obscurity to make it to the Copa Sudamericana finals scheduled for Wednesday against Atletico Nacional of Colombia.
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Coffins containing the remains of a victim of the plane crash in Colombia arrive at Arena Conda stadium in Chapeco, Brazil, December 3, 2016.
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As a soccer fan thousands of miles away, it's painful for me to see these images, so it's challenging to even imagine what it has meant to those who love and were close to the club, their players and more.
Soccer is the one language all nations speak, and it's the one thing that every nation has in common, the one thing that can bring us together. And this event has brought the world together as we collectively remember Chapecoense and hope for happiness and healing to soon find its way to those suffering from this.
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