Great gesture by FC Barcelona

Barcelona has shown a great gesture and proved why football is such a great sport.

They have invited Brazilian Football Club, Chapecoense to play a pre-season friendly match with them next summer which will be for Joan Gamper trophy.

It's been evident that, 71 people lost their lives in a plane crash including 19 players and staff of the Chapecoense team when they were traveling to Colombia to play first leg of Copa Sudamericana final against Atletico Nacional.

After the incident, whole footballing got together to show solidarity towards the victims families and the club.

In one such gesture, Barcelona want to help the club by offering to play a friendly.

The Match for Joan Gamper trophy is played every year between Barcelona and an invited team.

Barcelona said they wanted to make the Joan Gamper trophy "a great tribute to the world of football through various activities around this match".

"Along with the invitation to Chapecoense to the 2017 Joan Gamper Trophy, Barcelona would like to collaborate on the institutional and sporting reconstruction of the club, and help to recover the competitive level that it had," they added.

"Barcelona has today sent a formal letter of invitation to the current board of directors of Chapecoense."

Well, this tells us that why football is the most popular sport in the world.

The club and the people related to it will be needing more of such support to rebuild and its time every footballing body join hands to help them achieve this.

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