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FILE - Supporters gather to pay tribute to Argentinian soccer player Emiliano Sala prior the French League One soccer match between Nantes against Bordeaux at La Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, western France, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file)

French court dismisses Cardiff’s $138M claim against Nantes over Emiliano Sala’s death

By Alex Turnbull and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

People line up as they wait to cast their ballot during the second round of France's municipal elections in Paris, Sunday, March 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

France holds the final round of municipal elections ahead of 2027 presidential race

By Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

Nantes fans wait for the start of the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Reims at the Stade de la Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, France, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023. Nantes coach Pierre Aristouy, who salvaged the eight-time French champion from relegation last season, was fired on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

8-time French champion Nantes fires coach Aristouy after four-game winless run, hires Gourvennec

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Nantes' Mostafa Mohamed celebrates after scoring his side's opening goal during the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Monaco in Nantes, France, Sunday, April 9, 2023. French soccer club Nantes fined striker Mostafa Mohamed for refusing to play against Toulouse on Sunday, when teams across the country wore rainbow-colored numbers on their jerseys this weekend to support the fight against homophobia. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez, File)

Soccer team fines player for refusing to wear rainbow-colored numbers on jersey

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Nantes' head coach Antoine Kombouare, centre, reacts during the French League One soccer match between Nantes and Monaco at the Stade de la Beaujoire stadium in Nantes, France, Sunday, April 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeremias Gonzalez)

Nantes fires coach Kombouare 4 four games from end of season

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Nantes' Ludovic Blas kicks the ball during the French Cup final soccer match between Nice and Nantes at the Stade de France stadium, in Saint Denis, north of Paris, Saturday, May 7, 2022. Blas and his teammates are returning to the Stade de France on Saturday to take on Toulouse in another French Cup final. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Blas and Nantes chasing French Cup glory amid struggles

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Fire fighters brigade work to extinguish the blaze at the Gothic St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral, in Nantes, western France, Saturday, July 18, 2020. The fire broke, shattering stained glass windows and sending black smoke spewing from between its two towers of the 15th century, which also suffered a serious fire in 1972. The fire is bringing back memories of the devastating blaze in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last year that destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire and threatened to topple the medieval monument. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

Fire at French cathedral in Nantes destroys famed organ

By Laetitia Notarianni and Thomas Adamson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019, file photo, a Nantes soccer team supporters stops by a poster of Argentinian player Emiliano Sala and reading &quot;Let's keep hope&quot; outside La Beaujoire stadium before the French soccer League One match Nantes against Saint-Etienne, in Nantes, western France. On Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, the man leading a private search for the missing plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala says the wreckage has been found. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

Sala’s last goal and last assist typified him as a player

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

A van stands by the Geo Ocean III specialist search vessel docked in Portland, England, which is carrying a body recovered from the wreckage of the plane carrying Cardiff City footballer Emiliano Sala and pilot David Ibbotson, Thursday Feb. 7, 2019. The aircraft remains 67 metres underwater 21 miles off the coast of Guernsey in the English Channel as poor weather conditions stopped recovery efforts. (Steve Parsons/PA via AP)

Police confirm Sala’s body recovered from plane wreckage

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Flowers and tributes are placed near a giant picture of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala outside the FC Nantes training camp, in Nantes, western France, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, after a plane with Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. Sobbing after the active search for her brother was halted, the sister of Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala urged authorities Thursday not to give up trying to find the remains of his plane that disappeared from radar over the English Channel. (AP Photo)

Nantes coach livid at decision to call off search for plane

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

Flowers and tributes are placed outside Cardiff City Football Club, Wales, Wednesday Jan. 23, 2019, after a plane with new signing Emiliano Sala on board went missing over the English Channel on Monday night. The search resumed Wednesday to find missing Emiliano Sala and his pilot with authorities in the Channel Islands prioritizing whether they have been unable to make contact after more than 36 hours having managed to land, been picked up by a ship or are still on a lifeboat. (Ben Birchall/PA via AP)

Emiliano Sala earned respect through hard work, team ethic

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press

In this his picture taken on Jan. 14, 2018, Argentine soccer player, Emiliano Sala, of the FC Nantes club, western France, gives a thumbs up during a soccer match against PSG in Nantes, France. The French civil aviation authority says Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

Search ends for plane, angering soccer player Sala’s family

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 27, 2015 file photo, Caen's forward Emiliano Sala celebrates scoring against Marseille during the League One soccer match between Marseille and Caen, at the Velodrome Stadium, in Marseille, southern France. The French civil aviation authority said Tuesday Jan. 22, 2019, Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala was aboard a small passenger plane that went missing off the coast of the island of Guernsey. French and British maritime authorities are searching the English Channel for the plane. (AP Photo/Claude Paris, File)

The Latest: Sala’s father ‘beginning to think the worst’

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Police officers guard the van that crashed into a French Christmas market in Nantes, western France, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. France’s top security official says the driver stabbed himself several times after the incident. Eleven people including the driver were injured in the accident, which happened at a busy market full of holiday shoppers. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

France finds no links among 3 attacks in 3 days

By MILOS KRIVOKAPIC and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Marseille held 1-1 at Nantes in French league

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Ibrahimovic sends PSG into League Cup final

By JEROME PUGMIRE - Associated Press