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Liverpool players join family for Diogo Jota's funeral
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Diogo Jota, a 28-year-old footballer, and his 25-year-old brother Andrè Silva died in a car crash in Spain on Thursday morning. A service was held in Portugal, attended by Liverpool team members and former teammates.
Diogo was an icon for the talent that Portuguese football represents and for its ability to generate unity around a person.
It is a moment of great pain for the family, who are left anchored to this tragic accident.
Liverpool FC will be making no further comment at this time and request the privacy of Diogo and Andre's family, friends, teammates and club staff is respected as they try to come to terms with an unimaginable loss.
The No.20 will be rightly immortalised for his contributions as part of Liverpool's 2024-25 title-winners – the club's 20th – with his trademark shimmy and strike in front of the Kop to seal victory in April's Merseyside derby a poignant last goal of his life.
Diogo was not only a fantastic player, but also a great friend, a loving and caring husband and father.
Teammates come and go but not like this. It's going to be extremely difficult to accept that Diogo won't be there when we go back.
I never thought there would be something that would frighten me off going back to Liverpool after the (summer) break.
Diogo was a silent hero for everything he represented on and off the pitch.
These are tragic days, days for reflection, and may the memory of these two athletes, these two great men, live on.
He never forgot his roots, nor his friends, because he had a group of friends who were with him in the training here in Gondomar and who he even invited from time to time to go and watch Liverpool games in England.
sources
- 1.CNA News
- 2.CNN
- 3.Euronews
- 4.ABC News (Australia)
- 5.France 24
- 6.The Guardian
- 7.Al Jazeera
- 8.Sky Sports
- 9.Reuters
- 10.Agence France-Presse
- 11.Associated Press
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.English Premier League
- 2.FC Penafiel
- 3.Banco Santander SA
- 4.Lamborghini
- 5.Al-Hilal SC
- 6.Manchester City
- 7.Manchester United
- 8.Instagram
- 9.Liverpool FC
- 10.Fluminense
- 11.Wolverhampton Wanderers
- 12.Nottingham Forest
persons
- 1.André Silva
- 2.Diogo Jota
- 3.Rute Cardoso
- 4.Virgil Van Dijk
- 5.Arne Slot
- 6.Andre Villas-Boas
- 7.Bernardo Silva
- 8.Bruno Fernandes
- 9.Roberto Martínez
- 10.Rúben Dias
- 11.Luís Montenegro
- 12.Pedro Proenca