The Iberian Duel of the Women's Eurocup 2025 between Space y Portugal came marked by tragically Diogo Jota In the early hours of Thursday, in a traffic accident in the province of Zamora. The players of both teams carried a black bracelet as a sign of mourning and before the beginning of the duel an emotional minute of silence was kept.
The two selections faced hours after the fateful news was known. They did it in the Stadium Wankdorf de BernaHome of Young Boys. The presidents of both federations, Rafael Louzán and Pedro Proença, were in the box. Everything, just a month after doing so in Munich, where The male selections From both countries they played the final of the League of Nations. Portugal then took the victory, with Diogo Jota being part of the squad that was proclaimed champion.
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Jota's tragic death He shocked the world of football on Thursday. Portugal, England and Spain were the countries where their loss felt most, for obvious reasons. The Portuguese footballer, who was playing at Liverpool, had gone through the Atlético de Madrid Being just a young promise and 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 he was traveling The 28 -year -old footballer got out of the road on a line. Everything indicates that the cause of the accident was a tire. The car was set in fire and It was burneddying in the accident Diogo Jota and his brother, André.
The accident occurred around 00:30 hours this 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 y Diogo Jota He left the road and ended up calcined. The flames also spread also by nearby vegetation.
The agents recognized the soccer player Liverpool already his brother collateing the registration of the vehicle. 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.
