By Gerard Couzens for MailOnline
Published: 09:14 GMT, 16 February 2019 | Updated: 09:21 GMT, 16 February 2019
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Emiliano Sala's body will be cremated after well-wishers in the Argentinian town where he grew up say their final farewells on Saturday, officials have confirmed.
Thousands of people are expected to pay their last respects to the new Cardiff City signing at a wake in the sports hall of his boyhood football club San Martin in the small town of Progreso.
His body - repatriated on Friday on a British Airways flight - was due to be driven to the town early on Saturday morning from its overnight resting place at a funeral home in the provincial capital Santa Fe.
Emiliano Sala's body is to be cremated after a funeral on Saturday in hometown in Argentina
Progeso mayor Julio Muller confirmed overnight Emiliano's body would return to the city of Santa Fe an hour's drive south after the eight-and-a-half-long wake finishes so it can be cremated.
Mr Muller, referring to the tragic footballer by the shortened name his family and friends call him, said: 'If all goes to plan, people will be able to pay their last respects to Emi today from 7am local time to about 3.30pm.
'At 2pm there will be a
