The funeral of Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala will be held in his home town in Argentina on Saturday.

The 28-year-old striker died last month just two days after completing a Cardiff club-record £15million move from Nantes.

The single-engine private plane he was travelling in with pilot David Ibbotson crashed in the English Channel near Alderney on January 21.

His body was recovered from the wreckage on February 7 and was brought into Portland Port, the nearest part of the British mainland to where the plane was located, and handed over to a Dorset coroner.

The body of the 59-year-old pilot is still missing, with funds being raised to continue the search.

An inquest into Sala's death took place in Bournemouth on Monday and the inquest heard Mr Sala died of 'head and trunk injuries'.

His funeral will take place in his home town of Progreso in the Argentinian province of Santa Fe.

Cardiff manager Neil Warnock and chief executive Ken Choo will both attend.

Nantes, for whom Sala joined from Bordeaux in the summer of 2015 and scored 42 goals in 120 league appearances, will be represented by the defender Nicolas Pallois and general secretary Loic Morin.

A public vigil, expected to last for several hours, will be held in the gymnasium of Sala's boyhood club San Martin de Progreso.

The club posted an emotional tribute on Facebook earlier this week, saying: "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. Eternally in our hearts."