Thousands of people are expected to pay their last respects to the new Cardiff City signing at a wake in the sports hall of his boyhood football club San Martin in the small town of Progreso.
The body of footballer Emiliano Sala arrived in Argentina on Friday, ahead of this weekend's wake and burial in his home town. TV pictures showed a van carrying the body being slowly escorted.
Sala had completed a £15m move from Nantes to Cardiff, and had flown to France to say goodbye to team mates. However the private jet he was aboard vanished on its way back to Wales.
Emiliano Sala’s funeral will be attended by Cardiff manager Neil Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo. Sala became Cardiff’s club-record signing when bought by the Welsh club for £15million last month, but the 28-year-old was killed days later when a plane he was travelling on crashed in the English channel. A privately-funded search found the […]
Sala had signed for Cardiff in a club-record £15million move from Nantes last month, but was killed when the private plane carrying him crashed in the English Channel near Alderney.
Sala's body was recovered from the wreckage of a crashed plane last week, and there were tributes from both teams at the match, with the Argentinian having played on loan for Caen.
Sala is missing presumed dead after his flight went off radar, north of Alderney at Les Casquets at 8.23pm on Monday, just an hour after taking off from Nantes Atlantique airport.
LAURIE WHITWELL AT THE CARDIFF CITY STADIUM: Just as they had on Friday, a group of teenagers stood outside Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday and talked about Emiliano Sala.
French newspaper L'Equipe is mourning the 'disappearance of a warrior' after a plane carrying Cardiff's new striker Emiliano Sala went missing over the English channel on Monday night.
ADAM CRAFTON: When a leading goalscorer leaves in the January transfer window, it is usually with his hood up and via the back door amid the loud stomping of feet. Yet Sala was different.
The 26-year-old had requested that Arsenal allow him to leave on a short term deal after being third choice behind Petr Cech and Bernd Leno at the club this season.
Julio Muller, mayor of the town of Progreso in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe, confirmed his remains would reach Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires around 9am local time on Friday.
Former Nantes manager Claudio Ranieri has paid tribute to Emiliano Sala after Cardiff's new £15million striker went missing on a plane over English Channel on Monday night.
Follow all the latest updates from rescue agencies and Cardiff City as fans and fellow footballers react to the shock news that Emiliano Sala is missing after his plane disappeared.
Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman says the club are still gathering information over the £15million fee due to Nantes for the transfer of Emiliano Sala but will pay up if 'contractually obliged'.