[ad_1]
Sala left the French club for Wales on Monday night, where he was to begin a new period of his career with the Premier League of Cardiff City.
Police said Thursday that the chances of finding alive the 28-year-old Argentine, were "extremely weak" since they announced that they were ending their search.
"I had a special relationship with him because, as soon as I arrived, we talked a lot, I talked to him …..", said veteran coach Halilhodzic, who started crying before to compose himself sufficiently to continue.
His voice was still shaking when he added, "For me, it is perhaps the most difficult moment of my sporting life.I have known other people, but in terms of sport, it I'm left completely shocked. "
Sala had been in Nantes since 2015 and had scored 12 goals in the league this season before signing a three-and-a-half year contract with Cardiff, threatened with relegation, for an announced contract of 17 million euros (19.3 million euros). dollars).
At the Nantes training center in La Chapelle-sur-Erdre, in the west of France, the team and the staff met supporters gathered to pay tribute to them.
"Keep on hoping," said a poster that contained a photo of Sala that was stuck to the fence of the training center.
Flowers and candles were also presented while the fans, numb by the disappearance of Sala, organized an evening of emotion for their former player.
"We know that he is lost, but there is still a small corner of hope," said 29-year-old AFP Maxime Perrouin.
– "No minute of silence – we still have hope"
After the training session of the Nantes team, the players and the staff were applauded by the fans, who were more than 300.
"We ask you to stay united with us," Captain Valentin Rongier told them.
"We ask you to respect the family who absolutely refuse to talk about grief and asks us to continue to believe.
"It is for this reason that we will not have a minute of silence or a minute of applause because we still have hope."
Perrouin, who was at the center with his dog Huskie wearing a Nantes jersey, said the fans were to salute Sala and support the team that currently has six points over the relegation zone in Ligue 1 .
"The players really need us, I think it will make them happy to see everyone gathered for them and I think they will use it as a force to excel on the pitch," he said. said Perrouin.
"I have tears in my eyes as I speak to you and as I look at his picture, it's as if we had lost some one of our family."
Another fan, 69-year-old Andree Guittet, who has been supporting the Canaries for 35 years, said she initially refused to believe the news of Sala's disappearance.
"Someone phoned me – I thought it was a" false news ", it was not possible.
"You can not say that he was a player like Neymar or Mbappe, but he was a fighter, he was a warrior."
[ad_2]
Source link
