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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Steven Morris

Emiliano Sala was put under pressure before plane crash death, inquest hears

Flowers are seen in front of a portrait of Argentinian forward Emiliano Sala at a makeshift memorial at the Beaujoire stadium in Nantes.
Emiliano Sala was joining Cardiff City from Nantes in a £15m deal. Photograph: Loïc Venance/AFP/Getty Images

The footballer Emiliano Sala was put under pressure to complete his multimillion-pound transfer to the Premier League before he died in a plane crash as he headed to his new club, an inquest jury has been told.

Sala’s mother, Mercedes Taffarel, said the weeks before the private plane he was in crashed into the Channel as he travelled from Nantes in France to join Cardiff City seemed “very intense”.

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