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Sala's body was identified as being found Wednesday in a plane descended on January 21 in the English Channel.
The light aircraft was carrying 28-year-old star from France to his new Premier League team, Cardiff City. The pilot, David Ibbotson, is also dead.
The player's father, Horacio Sala, is so upset that he did not leave his home on Thursday and avoids the media, residents of the city said.
"Since we learned that everyone can talk about it, that's all," said restaurant owner Oscar Heymo, a friend of the father. "He was very loved and admired by all."
Heymo said that in Progreso, a city of 3,000 inhabitants located in the fertile region of the Argentine Pampas, everyone knows each other.
He said that he could not bring himself to go see the father, become a full-fledged legend in town because of his son's success.
"You can not imagine the pain it caused," Heymo said.
Sala the player was a hero in town. When he was returning from vacation with his former FC Nantes team in France, he was playing football with children from the region.
Sala lived there for 3 to 15 years. While other Argentinian players trained in Europe return to driving luxury cars, Sala has been described by its inhabitants as having kept a humble and calm profile.
"He was good, but honestly no one expected him to reach the elite level," said Diego Solis, who coached Sala when he was young.
"He was a great man, he never talked about himself, he just asked about all the others," Solis said.
Mayor Julio Muller said residents of the city were trying to follow FC Nantes matches to see Sala play, but it was not easy.
They were proud of him and talked about every goal scored.
"His pbadion was football, which is why he came so far," said the mayor.
The disappearance of Sala caused a wave of grief and a flood of money to support a private hunt for the missing plane when the official search was canceled.
The mayor said that the day Sala was missing, it was as if an earthquake had occurred in Progreso.
"There is a before and after," Muller said. He called Sala "our ambbadador".
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