The funeral of footballer Emiliano Sala is due to take place in his home town in Argentina.
The 28-year-old striker died when the plane in which he was travelling crashed in the English Channel on January 21, just days after he had signed for Cardiff City in a record transfer deal for the Premier League side.
Sala’s body was pulled from the the wreckage on February 7.
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo will both attend the funeral in Progreso in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe on Saturday.
A public vigil, expected to last for several hours, will be held in the gymnasium of the Sala’s boyhood club San Martin de Progreso.
The club posted an emotional tribute on Facebook earlier this week, saying the footballer would be “eternally in our hearts”, adding: “We are waiting for you… like the first day you left but this time to stay with us forever. You went and you are an example for everyone.”
Sala was born in October 1990 at Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina.
At the opening of an inquest, his cause of death was given as “head and trunk injuries”.
The pilot of the plane, David Ibbotson, is still missing following the crash, and a fundraising campaign to restart the search for him has raised more than £240,000.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain earlier this week, his daughter Danielle said the family would not give up hope that he would be found.
“If you’ve got hope then you shouldn’t give up,” she said. “He wouldn’t stop searching for me.”
She added: “We still hope and pray and hope everyone keeps my dad in their prayers.”
Sala’s body was recovered in a privately funded search, which was launched after the initial search was called off three days after the men and their plane went missing.
Although Mr Ibbotson, 59, of Crowle, Lincolnshire, was not located, poor weather conditions meant a “difficult decision was taken to bring the overall operation to a close”, the Air Accidents Investigation Branch said.
The aircraft remains underwater off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel.
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