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Friends and family carry Sala's coffin to waiting hearse for journey to Santa Fe for cremation Cardiff city was well represented at Emiliano Sala's funeral, with a delegation made up of manager Neil Warnock, CEO Ken Choo and liaison officer Callum Davies. Davies was due to welcome Emiliano at Cardiff Airport on the fateful night of January 21.  Warnock (left) and Davies (right) at Sala's funeral Warnock spoke to reporters at the service and said it was a very emotional day. " It has been a very emotional morning. Mercedes (Sala’s mother) has been an immense woman this morning. Everyone she has met has had their own memories of Emiliano and it has brought tears to her eyes. His father is the same, and his brother and sister. It is like the whole village is united and it is amazing how they have coped with it. We were very fortunate last night to speak with Mercedes and Romina in the hotel and to have some quiet time. The pride Mercedes has in her son...

Mourners started paying tributes to the late Cardiff City striker Emiliano Sala since the arrival of his remains in Argentina, on Friday. Sala's life was abruptly cut short in a plane crash as he traveled from Nantes to begin training with his new club Cardiff City. A vigil is going on at Sala's boyhood club San Martin in his hometown of Progreso. Sala's aunt Mirta Taffarel in tears Sala's devastated aunt, Mirta Taffarel, sobbed as she said, " I do not understand it. "I would like to find a responsible person, someone to tell me what has happened, but it only seems that fate led us to this." Fans draped a banner reading  'Emi, nunca caminaras solo' or 'Emi, You'll Never Walk Alone' outside the vigil, whih begun as early as 7:00 a.m. Mourners arrive at Club Atletico y Socual San Martin in Progreso A sobbing mourner, Lucia Torres, who lives nearby, said, "It's as if he was a member of my family. "It...