PROGRESSO, Argentina — Family, friends, supporters and former teammates paid tribute to striker Emiliano Sala in his small Argentine hometown on Saturday, almost four weeks after he died when the plane he was in crashed into the English Channel. “My town shut down on Jan. 21 and remains shut down to this day.”Sala was the best-known figure from Progreso, a town of several thousand inhabitants in Argentina’s Santa Fe province, and was adored by many. He had been known since childhood here as “Emi.”A post-mortem found that Sala died from injuries to his head and torso when his plane crashed in the channel. Among those in attendance at Saturday’s funeral were Cardiff City’s manager Neil Warnock and his Nantes teammate Nicolas Pallois. “He is my player, he’s signed for me,” Warnock said of Sala, adding that he’d met with striker’s family.

Source: National Post February 16, 2019 23:03 UTC