Moving the minute of silence that was kept in memory of Diogo Jota in Orlando before the start of the first quarterfinal match of the Club World Cup Between Fluminense and to Hilal. A minute of silence that the FIFA He will keep in all the matches of this round and began the applause of the Arab and Brazilian fans in the stands. Joao Cancelo and Ruben Nevesformer companions of Whomthey lived this moment with a lot of pain.
The world of football lives moments of great pain after the tragic death of Diogo Jota and his brother last Wednesday night in Zamora. Like the UEFA He respected his memory with emotional minutes of silence in the female Eurocup, the FIFA They have joined these tributes with the beginning of the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup.
The players of Fluminense and to Hilal They kept this minute of silence in memory of Diogo Jota And his brother with a lot of respect. But there were two players who were much more affected and could not suppress their tears. These were the Portuguese Ruben Neves and Joao Cancelo. Both former Jota companions. In the case of Neves, a personal friend and very close since they were little. Very hard moments those who lived in Orlando before the start of the game.
Because a partner and friend lost his life and that is one of the toughest things in life …
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Diogo Jota He lost his life on a Zamora road, when he headed to Santander with his brother to take a ferry towards the United Kingdom. The Lamborghini in which the 28 -year -old footballer was traveling, left the road on a line. Everything indicates that the cause of the accident was a tire. The car was fire and was burned, dying in the accident Diogo Jota And his brother, André.
The accident occurred around 00:30 on Thursday at kilometer 65 of the A-52 in the term of Cernadilla, at the height of the municipality of Palacios de Sanabria. According to the authorities, the vehicle in which they circulated André and Diogo Jota He left the road and ended up calcined. The flames also spread also by nearby vegetation.
The agents recognized the Liverpool footballer and his brother collation of the vehicle registration. Both were transferred to the Forensic Anatomical Institute to investigate the causes of death and if it occurred before the car's fire. The notice was received after midnight on Wednesday through the emergency center. They immediately contacted the Civil Guard of Traffic in Zamora, to the firefighters of the Diputación, and with Sacyl Emergency Coordinating Center (CCU), which displaced the place a medicalized emergency unit (UME) and medical staff of the Mombuey Health Center.
