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Crowds mourn Liverpool star Jota in his Portuguese hometown

James Waterhouse

BBC News

ReportingGondamar, Portugal
Pa Media Andre Silva, RB Leipzig and Portugal national team footballer and partner Maria Rodrigues, Diogo Jota and her brother Andre Silva Capela da Capela Da Ressurreicao'da participating in a public wake up. PA Media

Portuguese National Team player André Silva was among the football players and politicians to participate in the public wake up in Gondomar

The crowds mourned Dioğo Jota in his hometown to pay their respect to Liverpool, and both of them mourned his brother André Silva, who died in a car accident on Thursday.

Portuguese President, the national team stars and fans from all over the country, the couple grew up in the skirts of Porto Gondomar Gondomar town gathered.

His parents, his grandfather and other family members held a special guard in a chapel in the town before he was opened to the public for a waking up. The funeral will be held on Saturday.

Both footballers were killed after André’s second part of Portugal, after collapsing in the Spanish province of Lamborghini, where they traveled.

Portuguese flags, flowers and other memories, fans, cried to pay their respect.

Among the participants were President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Prime Minister Luís Montenegro, national team stars João Moutinho, Diogo Dalot and Ricardo Horta and Jota’s agent Jorge Mendes.

As a young child for years, Jota has played in 2022 on the local club Gondomar SC.

An excerpt from Jota in the sign: “Not where we come from, it’s about where we go.”

Outside the club, shirts and scarves were placed on a candle ring.

A man getty Images stands in front of a monument for Liverpool's Portuguese advanced Diogo JotaGetty Images

This year, three 28 -year -old father, who won Liverpool with Portugal and Premier League with the Premier League, married a long -term common Rute Cardoso just 11 days before the deadly accident.

He was returning to Liverpool for pre -season training, traveling by car and ferry because he had undergone small surgery and was recommended against the flying.

Liverpool said his death was the club’s “tragedy”.

The fans were also upset outside the club’s Anfield Stadium.

Former captain Jordan Henderson, was seen in tears while putting a wreath, “Surrect my brother, your brother André with your André. We will all miss you.”

Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah admitted that he was afraid to return to the club after Jota’s shock death.

Salah, in a article on social media, “I really disappeared for words. Until yesterday, after the break, I never thought it would be something that would scare me to return to Liverpool.”

A delegation from Liverpool’s city rival club Everton, including Beto and Youssef Chermiti, who was born in Portugal, also joined and left flowers outside the Anfield.

Former Liverpool Assembly Member Peter Millea – A house that came to pay its respects and away – told BBC: “When it first came to us, it has become a hit as a player.

PA media at the Anfield Stadium, the home of Liverpool in memory of Dioğo Jota, who died at the age of 28.PA Media

He continued: “He was one of the players you can easily get because of the way he executed him on the field and outside the field.”

Mr. Millea said that some fans in Anfield were paying their respects while entering the unprepared interpretations of the hymn.

“I’m sure we’ll hear loudly and clearly for the community shield in Wembley, and we’ll hear it in Preston for away games before the first season, you know it will be said in the field against athletic Bilbao, and then the rest of the season and probably more forever,” he said.

Elsewhere, fans left flowers, scarves and shirts outside Wolves’s Molineux stadium, where he played before moving to Jota Anfield.

Portuguese tennis player Francisco Cabral in Wimbledon wore a black ribbon to mark the passage of his citizens.

Women between Denmark and Sweden were held in the Euro 2025 match.

Liverpool, as a result of yesterday’s news today, some players should take place before the season canceled fitness tests. A gradual education return will now begin on Monday.

The funeral service will be held on Saturday at 10:00 at Igreja Matriz de Gondomar in Sao Cosme in Gondomar.

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