A new update on the unfortunate case of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala. After more than four years after the athlete’s death, FIFA announced a new twist in the legal dispute between French Nantes and English Cardiff, teams that were negotiating the transfer of Sala before the plane that was taking him to the United Kingdom disappeared. on January 22, 2019.
According to AFP, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) ordered Cardiff, which at the time of the accident was in the Premier League, to pay the last two installments of the footballer’s transfer ($6.55 and $5.46 million dollars, respectively) to the Nantes.
The Welsh club has already paid $6.55 million after a first FIFA decision in favor of Nantes and the subsequent dismissal of the appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
“FC Nantes is pleased with this new victory against FIFA. The club thus sees its rights respected. After four years of process, Cardiff City FC is expected to finally respect its financial commitments and this judicial bitterness will end,” the French club’s lawyers Jérôme Marsaudon and Louis-Marie Absil told AFP.
Since the event occurred, the Welsh club has argued that the deal was not fully closed and claims at least $109 million from Nantes for losses caused by the death of the Argentine striker.
The world of soccer was shocked in January 2019 after learning that the plane in which Emiliano Sala was traveling had disappeared in the English Channel, an ocean area located between France and Great Britain.
The Argentine, who had been transferred from Nantes in Ligue 1 to Cardiff City, had been dead for several hours but nobody knew. More than four years later, the legal fight between the clubs went ahead over the $18.5 million that the Welsh side were to offer to sign the striker.
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