Liverpool players join mourners in Portugal for Diogo Jota’s funeral | Liverpool
Liverpool players and staff joined the family and friends in Gondomar to pay their last respects to Dioğo Jota and his brother André Silva. The funerals are traveling from all over the world to say goodbye to the mourning in the hometown of the brothers in Portugal, where they are respected.
Jota’s widow’s wife, Rute Cardoso, whom he was married 11 days before the death of the football player, was greeted by the family on Saturday morning before the event. Liverpool Head Coach, Arne Slot, Captain, Virgil Van Dijk, defender Andrew Robertson, midfielder Alexis Mac Allister, former teammates Jordan Henderson and James Milner and Manchester City, Rúben Dias, are among the people in Portugal for service.
On Friday, the people of Capela da in the town in Ressurreição to join a public awake in the lining for hours. The brothers’ parents, Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. In addition to Jota’s Liverpool’s team -mate Darwin Núñez, his international colleagues Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot and Bernardo Silva Vigil from Manchester City.
Liverpool staff and players came to Portugal on Friday after renting an airplane. Football Director Richard Hughes and General Manager Michael Edwards were among the club officials to join the mourning for Wake. Since Van Dijk and Robertson took Liverpool players and officials to the church, they carried Jota’s No 20 Squad number and Silva’s 30 red football shirts number 30.
Jota and Silva died in the early morning of Thursday after their cars left their cars and turned into flames in the northwest of Spain, and proceeded to Santander to catch a ferry for England. Jota was advised not to fly after a collapsed lung treatment and decided to return by sea before the season.
Gondomar left the natives outside the football field and left scarves, shirts, flowers and memories to remember the brothers who started playing as a child in the club; Academy was elected in honor of Jota. In the second part of Portugal, Silva returned to represent the team as an adult before starting a professional career.
The tribute collection in Anfield continued to grow as people came to abandon their personal memories, covering a large area outside the stadium.
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