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Emiliano Sala, 28, died when a plane carrying him and pilot David Ibbotson came down in the Channel on 21 January, just days after he had joined Cardiff City...
Sala's plane came down in the English Channel as he flew to Cardiff on 21 January, two days after completing his transfer from French side Nantes to the Welsh club.
The image is believed to have been taken at the Holly Tree Lodge mortuary in Bournemouth, Dorset, following the plane crash that killed the 28-year-old striker.
Even though France has stricter rules governing agents than other leading Western European football nations, at least six intermediaries have been named in connection to Emiliano Sala's 17-million euro transfer from Nantes to Cardiff City in January.
The player’s body was recovered from the submerged wreckage on 7 February but 59-year-old Ibbotson remains missing.
Sala died when the plane he was on crashed in the English Channel last month.
Sala, 28, had signed for English Premier League side Cardiff City and was flying to his new team from his old club Nantes in France when his plane went missing over the Channel on 21 January.
Argentine Sala died in a plane crash last month days after joining Cardiff and his body was found on Thursday.
Emiliano Sala, 28, had been flying from his previous club Nantes in western France to Wales on 21 January to make his debut for the Premier League team.
Bad weather has forced the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) to abandon hopes of pulling the plane to shore.
Emiliano Sala, 28, was flying from France to join his new club Cardiff City, when the light aircraft disappeared on 21 January north of the island of Guernsey.
Emiliano Sala was travelling from France to join up with his new club, Premier League side Cardiff City, in a light aircraft on 21 January when it went missing close to the Channel Islands.
Premier League football player Emiliano Sala, Cardiff City’s new signing, and the plane’s pilot, David Ibbotson, have been missing since last week.
The light aircraft carrying the Argentine disappeared over the English Channel a week ago as the 28-year-old flew to Cardiff from Nantes.
A search for soccer star Emiliano Sala swept the seas between France and England on Wednesday more than 36 hours after the plane he was flying in disappeared.
Emiliano Sala was flying from the French city of Nantes to Cardiff when the plane lost radar contact off the English Channel island Guernsey late on Monday.