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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Louie Smith

Emiliano Sala team-mate helped to organise flight before English Channel crash

One of Emiliano Sala’s team-mates offered him a free flight to France if he would help him score more goals, an inquest heard today.

The Argentinian striker died aged 28 in a 2019 plane crash in the English Channel. It emerged today that fellow Cardiff City player Jack McKay, 25, helped organise the flight.

He told the inquest Emiliano wanted to go back to Nantes to say bye to
team-mates and collect his belongings.

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