Emiliano
Sala’s family has reached their €300,000 crowd-funding target in their bid to
resume the search for the missing Cardiff City striker.
Guernsey
Police on Thursday ceased looking for Sala, who was on board a Piper Malibu
aircraft with pilot David Ibbotson when the plane went missing en route to the
Welsh capital from Nantes on Monday.
Sala
completed a transfer to Cardiff the weekend before and had been back in France
bidding farewell to his colleagues at Nantes.
Search
and rescue efforts had spanned three days without a trace of the plane before
the authorities opted to call a halt to their scanning of the area.
A
GoFundMe page was created by non-profit organization Sport Cover on Friday,
with “its sole purpose” being to help continue the search for Sala and Ibbotson.
The
pot surpassed the €300,000 mark on Sunday, with a donation of €30,010 from
Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe helping it over the line.
Mbappe
is not the only high-profile player to donate a substantial sum, as his PSG
team-mate Adrien Rabiot contributed €25,000 on Saturday, while Marseille star
Dimitri Payet pledged €10,000 later the same day
