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The soccer world stays in shock after tragic highway 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 automotive accident in northwestern Spain.
At simply 28 years previous, Jota was having fun with among the finest moments of his profession and private life; he gained the UEFA Nations League with Portugal, the Premier League with Liverpool, and he lately married his childhood sweetheart.
The tragedy has left a deep void within the soccer world, which continues to be attempting to return to phrases with the loss.
What brought on the automotive crash?
The 2 had been travelling in a Lamborghini Urus SUV, which, in response to stories, 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 automotive veered off the highway, crashed, and immediately caught fireplace.
By the point firefighters arrived on the crash scene, the automobile was fully burned out.
The charred stays of the 2 footballers may solely be recognized by their identification papers.
Why was Jota driving again to England?
Jota was travelling by automotive 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 response to a number of media stories in Portugal and Spain.
His membership facet, Liverpool, are resulting from 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 death.
“It doesn’t make sense. We had been solely simply within the nationwide group collectively, you had solely simply acquired married,” Ronaldo posted on the social media platform X.
“To your loved ones, your spouse and your kids, I ship my condolences and want 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 knowledgeable 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 kids.
Rute Cardoso has all of a sudden and painfully change into the widow of Diogo Jota, lower than two weeks after they had been married at a ceremony in his dwelling metropolis of Porto on June 22.