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The soccer world stays in shock after tragic street accident involving Liverpool ahead Diogo Jota and his brother.
Within the early hours of Thursday, Diogo Jota, ahead for Liverpool FC and the Portuguese nationwide group, and his youthful brother, died in a automobile accident in northwestern Spain.
At simply 28 years outdated, Jota was having fun with a number of the greatest moments of his profession and private life; he gained the UEFA Nations League with Portugal, the Premier League with Liverpool, and he not too long ago married his childhood sweetheart.
The tragedy has left a deep void within the soccer world, which continues to be making an attempt to come back to phrases with the loss.
What prompted the automobile crash?
The 2 had been travelling in a Lamborghini Urus SUV, which, in accordance with reviews, suffered a tyre blowout simply after midnight whereas overtaking one other automobile on the A-52 freeway, at kilometre 65.300, close to the city of Cernadilla, Zamora, simply 15 kilometres from the Portugal border.
The automobile veered off the street, crashed, and immediately caught fireplace.
By the point firefighters arrived on the crash scene, the automobile was utterly burned out.
The charred stays of the 2 footballers might solely be recognized by their identification papers.
Why was Jota driving again to England?
Jota was travelling by automobile to catch a ferry from the Spanish port of Santander again to northern England after being suggested to not fly because of a earlier lung surgical procedure, in accordance with a number of media reviews in Portugal and Spain.
His membership facet, Liverpool, are as a consequence of start preseason coaching on Monday.
What was Cristiano Ronaldo’s response?
Ronaldo, Portugal’s nationwide group captain, was deeply shaken by the information of teammate Diogo Jota’s loss of life.
“It doesn’t make sense. We had been solely simply within the nationwide group collectively, you had solely simply received married,” Ronaldo posted on the social media platform X.
“To your loved ones, your spouse and your youngsters, I ship my condolences and need all of them the power on the planet. I do know you’ll at all times be with them. Relaxation in peace, Diogo and Andre. We’ll all miss you.”
Who was travelling with Jota?
His brother Andre Silva, his solely sibling.
Although much less recognized internationally, Silva, 25, was additionally an expert footballer.
He performed for Futebol Clube Penafiel in Portugal’s second division and was beforehand a part of FC Porto’s youth academy.
O Futebol Clube do Porto está de luto.
É com choque e profundo pesar que enviamos as sentidas condolências à família e amigos do Diogo Jota e irmão André Silva, que também foi nosso atleta nos escalões de formação.
Descansem em paz.#FCPorto pic.twitter.com/BXlR8v7y7Z
— FC Porto (@FCPorto) July 3, 2025
What household does Jota go away behind?
A spouse and three youngsters.
Rute Cardoso has instantly and painfully grow to be the widow of Diogo Jota, lower than two weeks after they had been married at a ceremony in his house metropolis of Porto on June 22.