Village bids farewell to soccer star

A small village in Argentina on Saturday bid farewell to a favorite son, soccer striker Emiliano Sala, who died 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 Sala’s soccer boyhood club, San Martín de Progreso, where his body lay in state. A religious ceremony was held in the afternoon, and he was to be cremated, reports said. Sala’s body arrived in the village Friday, about a week after his remains were found.