The funeral of Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala took place in his home village in Argentina on Saturday three weeks after he was killed in a plane crash. A public vigil was held in a gymnasium in Progreso, the modest village in the province of Santa Fe which Sala left as a teenager to forge a career in Europe.

Footballer Emiliano Sala's funeral takes place in Argentina

The coffin of footballer Emiliano Sala, who died in a plane crash between Nantes and Cardiff, arrived in Argentina on Friday ahead of his funeral in his hometown of Progreso.

Footballer Emiliano Sala's body arrives in Argentina

Former Argentinian footballers Diego Maradona and Gabriel Batistuta lead the tributes to the Cardiff City's Argentina-born football player Emiliano Sala after his body was recovered from the English Channel and formally identified by the British police.

Diego Maradona, Gabriel Batistuta lead tributes after Sala's body identified

A body recovered by British investigators from the submerged wreckage of a plane that went down in the Channel has been identified as that of footballer Emiliano Sala, police said on Thursday.

Body recovered from plane wreckage identified as footballer Sala: Police

Investigators recovered a body from the wreckage of a plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in the Channel and transported it to Britain on Thursday for identification.

Body from wreck of Emiliano Sala plane taken to Britain

British crash investigators told AFP on Tuesday they were planning "an underwater operation" in the next couple of days on the wreckage of a plane carrying Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala in the Channel.

Crash investigators planning 'operation' on Emiliano Sala's plane

Argentine footballer Lionel Messi has urged the authorities to continue the search for the plane carrying Premier League football player Emiliano Sala which disappeared over the English Channel a few days ago.

Lionel Messi requests authorities to resume search for missing Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala