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‘It’s a bad dream,’ Sala’s father says after plane recovered
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 4, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – Argentine football star Emiliano
Sala’s father Sunday was awakened from a sound sleep to learn that the plane
in which his son was killed, has been found.
“I can’t believe it. It’s a bad dream,” Horacio Sala said when contacted by
Cronica TV at his home in Progreso.
He was the only one to stay behind in Argentina when the family rushed to
Nantes, France to try to help with the search.
“I talk to them every day. But since I don’t have WhatsApp it’s expensive
to call them or for them to call me. But anyway, they kept saying days were
going by, and that there had been zero word on Emiliano, or on the plane,”
his father said.
Sala was travelling from France to join up with his new club, Premier
League side Cardiff City, in a light aircraft on January 21 when it went
missing close to the Channel Islands.
Suspected debris from the plane washed up on the Normandy coastline in
France last Wednesday.
Sala was flying in the Piper PA-46 Malibu plane after transferring from
French team Nantes in a 17 million euro ($19.3 million) move.
Top footballers were among more than 4,500 contributors to a crowd funding
page that raised over 300,000 euros ($343,000) to look for the wreck.
BSS/AFP/GMR/0804 hrs