Argentine Sala, 28, had been flying from Nantes in western France to Wales on Jan. 21 after signing for Premier League team Cardiff City when the single-engined Piper Malibu aircraft disappeared over the sea. Wreckage was found on Sunday following a privately-funded underwater search and a body recovered on Wednesday and taken to southern England.
"Tonight and during the whole weekend, we will all be united in paying a last tribute to Emiliano before the matches kick off," LFP President Nathalie Boy de la Tour said in a statement. His former club Nantes said in a statement that Sala would "forever be part of the legends who wrote the story of FC Nantes".
"I can't find the words. It's a tragedy, I'm devastated. This is why, like may fans, I wish to honour him again by taking out the number 9 (on Nantes shirts)," president Waldemar Kita added. (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Peter Rutherford and Toby Davis)
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