The Portuguese footballer Diogo Jota played for five seasons in the Liverpool of England.
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The researchers of the Spanish Civil Guard said Tuesday that the probable cause of the accident in which the footballer Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died, in the northwest of Spain, was due to alleged speeding.
The inquiries about the event occurred in the early hours of July 3, which are still underway, have analyzed the brands left by the vehicle, a Lamborghini Huracán, and have shown that “everything points to an elevated excess of speed,” said the Spanish police force in a message to journalists.
“All the tests performed at the moment suggest that the driver of the wrecked vehicle was Digo Jota”, who was traveling with his younger brother André, also a footballer in the Second Portuguese division, the Civil Guard added.
The players died on a highway in the Spanish province of Zamora, near the border with Portugal, when the car in which they went left the road before burning. In that type of roads the maximum allowed speed is 120 km/h.
After the accident, the researchers threw the theory of a possible count of a tire at the time the car was taking an overtaking. It should be remembered that there is still no definitive conclusion by the researchers of the Civil Guard.
Jota, who married on June 22 with his whole life and mother of his three children, was on his way to Santander (northern Spain). His intention was to take a ferri from there to England because he had advised to travel by plane due to a recent operation in a lung.
Liverpool came back
Diogo Jota joined Liverpool in 2020 for 49 million euros, after several seasons at the Wolverhampton. Since then, he played a central role in the hits accumulated by the Reds, including the title of Champion of England last season.
The English team began on Tuesday the preseason training, which had postponed for the death of Jota, with the assistance of several of its stars.
In the vicinity of the emblematic Stadium of Anfield, fans and football personalities have paid tribute to the Portuguese, depositing hundreds of bouquets of flowers, t -shirts, scarves and photos.
This Sunday was scheduled for a friendly preseason against the Preston, Second Division team. However, at the moment the sale of tickets for that party has been suspended, while deciding whether or not it is disputed.
Several Jota teammates, led by Virgil Van Dijk Captain, as well as coach Arne Slot, attended the player's funeral on Saturday in Gondomar (near Porto), hometown of the deceased.
The ceremony, officiated by the Bishop of Porto in the main church of Gondomar, brought together several players of the Portuguese team, including Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes, Danilo Pereira and Joao Félix, in addition to the coach, the Spanish Roberto Martínez.
On Friday they went to fire Jota the Prime Minister and the president of Portugal, Luis Montenegro and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in addition to football personalities such as his agent Jorge Mendes, the president of Porto, André Villas-Boas, and that of the Portuguese Football Federation.
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