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ANOTHER TRAGEDY HIT’S SALA’S FAMILY AS DAD DIES OF HEART ATTACK

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The father of footballer Emiliano Sala who was killed in a plane crash has died after suffering a heart attack.

According to metro.co.uk, Horacio Sala died three months after the tragedy in which the new Cardiff City FC signing lost his life in the English Channel.

Mayor of Sala’s hometown Julio Muller said: ‘2019 doesn’t let up in shocking us with news in this town. ‘At 5 o’clock in the morning, the lady, his wife, rang me and she was very upset.

‘The doctors were there but when I arrived at their home, he had already died.’

Horacio spoke about his pain at the loss of his son in an interview just days after the crash. He said: ‘I cannot believe it. This is a dream. A bad dream. I am desperate.’

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Horacio Sala has died three months after his son’s death in January

Emiliano Sala had been due to start playing for Cardiff City (Picture: AFP)

 Sala, 28, was flying to Cardiff in January following his transfer from French side Nantes when the Piper Malibu plane piloted by David Ibbotson crashed.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) found in its preliminary report in February that Ibbotson was not licensed to fly fee-paying passengers and the plane itself was not registered to undertake commercial flights, the Air Charter Association and Cardiff said in a statement. Records have since shown that Ibbotson was also not licensed to fly at night.

Kunle Solaja is the author of landmark books on sports and journalism as well as being a multiple award-winning journalist and editor of long standing. He is easily Nigeria’s foremost soccer diarist and Africa's most capped FIFA World Cup journalist, having attended all FIFA World Cup finals from Italia ’90 to Qatar 2022. He was honoured at the Qatar 2022 World Cup by FIFA and AIPS.

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