Emiliano Sala

Emiliano Raúl Sala Taffarel was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a striker, born on 31 October 1990 and killed on 21 January 2019. After youth football in Argentina and a short spell in Portugal regional leagues, he began his professional career in France with Bordeaux in 2012, then was loaned to Orléans and Niort, scoring 39 goals between them, and later to Caen. He signed permanently for Nantes in 2015, made more than 100 Ligue 1 appearances and was the club top goalscorer for three consecutive seasons. In January 2019 he moved to Cardiff City for a club record fee of 15 million pounds. He died in a plane crash off Alderney while flying from Nantes to Cardiff, and the wreckage was found on 3 February 2019.