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A small village in Argentina on Saturday prepared to bury a favorite son, the soccer striker Emiliano Sala, who died along with his pilot last month when his small plane crashed in the English Channel.
Friends, family and supporters gathered early Saturday in the village of Progreso, in the country’s northeast, for a wake at Mr. Sala’s soccer boyhood club, San Martín de Progreso, where his body lay in state. A religious ceremony was scheduled for later in the afternoon.
Outside the club, a banner read, “Emi, you will never walk alone.