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'It's a bad dream', says Emiliano Sala's father after wreckage of plane carrying Cardiff footballer found

Agence France-Presse February 4, 2019, 08:28:30 IST

Argentine football star Emiliano Sala’s father on Sunday was awakened from a sound sleep to learn that the plane in which his son was killed, has been found.

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'It's a bad dream', says Emiliano Sala's father after wreckage of plane carrying Cardiff footballer found

Buenos Aires: Argentine football star Emiliano Sala’s father on 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. [caption id=“attachment_6016981” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]Players from both sides and supporters observe a moment of reflection to honour Cardiff’s Argentinian striker Emiliano Sala, whose flight disappeared from radar over the English Channel north of Guernsey, before the English Premier League football match between between Cardiff City and Bournemouth at Cardiff City Stadium in Cardiff, south Wales on February 2, 2019. - The privately-funded search for the missing plane carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala will begin on Sunday, conditions permitting, the scientist leading the mission said on Saturday. (Photo by Geoff CADDICK / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. No use with unauthorized audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or ’live’ services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No video emulation. Social media in-match use limited to 120 images. An additional 40 images may be used in extra time. No use in betting publications, games or single club/league/player publications. / The wreckage of the missing plane carrying Emiliano Sala was found on Sunday according to the scientist leading the mission. AFP/Geoff Caddick[/caption] 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 21 January 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 move. Top footballers were among more than 4,500 contributors to a crowdfunding page that raised over €300,000 to look for the wreck.

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