Diogo Jota, 28, arrived at Liverpool in 2020
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The two brothers were traveling in a Lamborghini car that, according to research sources, could suffer the outbreak of a wheel when he performed an overtaking. As a result, the vehicle got out of the road and caught fire, extending the fire to the adjoining vegetation until it was extinguished by the firefighters of the Diputación de Zamora.
“Exit of the road of a vehicle, everything points to a tire burst while taking advance. As a result of the incident, the car is burned and both deceased,” the Civil Guard explained in a message, which explained that the events occurred on a highway near the city of Zamora, in the region of Castilla y León.
The two passengers, Diogo Jota and his brother André, also a professional footballer in the Portuguese Second Division, had already died when emergency services arrived, according to the Civil Guard.
The vehicle in which they were traveling was burned, with the bodies of the two brothers inside, according to the government subdelegate in Zamora, Angel Blanco. He also explained that in the autopsy they will try to obtain fingerprints and DNA tests will be used that we will have to refer to Madrid for analysis and confirmation, from the legal point of view, of the identity of the victims. The autopsy is performed at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Zamora.
Diogo Jota, 28, arrived at Liverpool in 2020, and since then played a central role in the successes of the British team in recent years.
The Portuguese Football Federation lamented in the social network X his death, stating that in addition to being “a fantastic player, with almost 50 internationalizations with the absolute national team, (…) he was an extraordinary person, respected by all his companions and adversaries.
The disappearance of Diogo and André “represents irreparable losses for Portuguese football and we will do everything possible to honor her legacy daily,” added the Federation, who said he had requested UEFA for a minute of silence this Thursday before the Portuguese party against Spain of the female euro.
“It is a day of mourning for national sport. We have lost, in a tragic and unexpected way, two young players who, in addition to their quality in the field, always distinguished themselves by their character and example,” wrote the president of the Portuguese League, Reinaldo Teixeira, in the note.
“Liverpool Football Club is devastated by the tragic death of Diogo Jota,” wrote the Premier League champion club in a message posted on Network X.
The club “will not comment at the moment and asks that the private life of the family of Diogo and André, the friends, the classmates and the staff of the entity be respected, at a time when they try to overcome this unimaginable loss,” the team added in a statement.
On Thursday morning, Liverpool fans approached the Anfield stadium to deposit flowers and scarves with which to pay tribute to the player.
