After the plane crash that ended the life of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) sanctioned Cardiff for not having paid Nantes the 15 million pounds (19 million euros) that Sala’s signing cost. According to the British channel BBC, Cardiff paid nearly seven million pounds (eight million euros) in recent days as the first payment for the transfer of the Argentine.
After Sala’s death, what Cardiff claimed was that at the time of the air tragedy he was not yet officially their player and therefore did not have to take financial responsibility. With the beginning of the payment, the English Football League (EFL) lifted the sanction that prevented him from signing in the next three transfer markets. Not so FIFA.
Emiliano Sala died in a plane crash when the plane he was traveling in, from Nantes to Cardiff, crashed into the English Channel in January 2019. Pilot David Ibbotson also died.
