Tragic Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala's body will be repatriated on Friday ahead of a wake in the gym of his boyhood club.
Julio Muller, mayor of the town of Progreso in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe where Emiliano grew up, confirmed his remains would reach Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires around 9am local time on Friday.
The body of the pilot of the single-engine Piper Malibu which disappeared on January 21, 59-year-old David Ibbotson, is yet to be found and his family are insisting the search must go on.
Wife Nora said earlier this week: 'We just know we can't leave him out there on his own until we have tried to do everything we can.'
San Martin de Progreso, where the footballer played until he was 15, has already indicated it intends changing the name of its stadium and calling it Estadio Emiliano Sala.
The Argentinian striker was heading from Nantes, where he spent nearly four years, to Cardiff after the Premier League side signed him for a club-record fee of £15million.
Cardiff chairman Mehmet Dalman has said the club would pay the fee if they are 'contractually obliged.'
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