This file photo taken on November 24, 2016 shows Brazil's Chapecoense players posing for pictures during their 2016 Copa Sudamericana semifinal second leg football match against Argentina's San Lorenzo. pic/ AFP

Rio de Janiero: Around 120,000 people, including celebrities, politicians, athletes and journalists are expected to be at the Saturday funeral of the Chapecoense footballers and coaches. Nineteen players, most of the club's training staff and a number of journalists and guests were killed in the Monday plane crash in Colombia, that saw a death toll of 71.