Mourners Line The Streets For Sala

17 February 2019, 08:14 | Updated: 17 February 2019, 08:15

Emiliano Sala Funeral

A funeral's been held for Cardiff City's record signing in Argentina.


Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock and club CEO Ken Choo joined mourners at the funeral of Emiliano Sala in his hometown in Argentina.

Warnock and Choo joined locals from Progreso for a service in the gymnasium of Sala's boyhood club.

They arrived wearing black suits with yellow daffodils pinned to their jackets as a tribute to Sala.

Cardiff City's striker died on January 21 when the plane he was travelling in crashed in the English Channel after he had visited players at his former French club, Nantes.

His body was pulled from the wreckage on February 7 but the British pilot, David Ibbotson, 59, from Lincolnshire, has not been found.

A fundraising campaign to restart the search for the pilot has raised more than £240,000.

The plane remains on the seabed off the coast of Guernsey in the English channel.