Portugal’s footballer Diogo Jota died in a tragic car accident. Now new bitter details come to light.
Update, July 3, 6:42 p.m.: Bitter new details based on the tragic accident death by Liverpool player Diogo Jota. According to CNN Portugal, the footballer was on the way to a port to travel to England by boat. Because of an operation, doctors advised him against a flight. This is the only way to get into his car and drove on the said street when the accident occurred.
Reports by the Portuguese sports newspaper “A Bola” and the British BBC after Jota had previously had a small operation on the lungs. Because of the pressure fluctuations, the doctors would have advised him against flying. When flying, the cabin pressure only drops to a lower level and then rises to the normal value on the ground when landing.
The 28 -year -old Portuguese international from FC Liverpool and his brother André (25) were therefore traveling from Porto to the port city of Santander on the Spanish north coast, where they wanted to take a ferry to Portsmouth. Shortly after the Portuguese-Spanish border, her vehicle came off the street in the Spanish region of Zamora on Thursday night and went up in flames.
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First report: Shock and grief in the football world: FC Liverpool star and Portuguese international Diogo Jota died in a car accident in Spain just a few days after his wedding. As the local police said, his brother André, also a professional footballer, died with the 28-year-old striker during the accident on Thursday. Weg companions from Jürgen Klopp and Cristiano Ronaldo reacted stunned.
According to the police, Jatas Wagen, a Lamborghini, had strayed from the street at 00:30 in the northwestern province of Zamora and finally caught fire. “Everything points to a burst tire during an overtaking maneuver” by Jota’s car, explained the Guardia Civil.
Diogo Jota dies in auto accident: “Breaked tires”
The car was “burned out and they died in it,” said the Spanish government representative in Zamora, Angel Blanco, ahead of journalists. Spanish media published videos of the burned-out Lamborghini wreck on the roadside.
Just a week and a half ago, Jota married his long -time girlfriend Rut Cardoso. A few hours before his accident death, he and his wife published a video of the wedding celebration in the Instagram online service. The couple had three children together.
About Diogo Jota:
Throughout his career, Jota had played at Atlético Madrid, FC Porto and the English Association of Wolverhampton Wanderer before the then German FC Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp brought the striker to the traditional English club in 2020. At that time, the association paid £ 45 million (52.2 million euros) for the transfer.
With his danger of scoring, Jota quickly developed into a favorite of the fans. He was the first Liverpool player to scored the club in his first four home games. In 2022, JOTA won the FA Cup, the cup competition in English football with FC Liverpool.
Before his wedding, Jota won the master title of the English Premier League with Liverpool FC. With the Portuguese national team, Jota won the UEFA Nations League in early June. A total of 49 missions came to the National team, in which he scored 14 goals. Diogo Jota’s younger brother André was also a striker and played with the Portuguese second division club FC Penafiel.
Klopp reacted “indefinently” to Jota’s death. Diogo was “not only a fantastic player, but also a great friend,” Klopp wrote in the online service X. “We will miss you so much!”
Diogo Jota’s death also shocked Cristiano Ronaldo: “You just got married”
Portuguese international Cristiano Ronaldo also reacted stunned to the death of his teammate. “Nothing makes sense,” said Ronaldo on X. “We were just together in the national team, you just got married,” he wrote to the deceased.
US basketball star LeBron James, who is involved in the Liverpool FC, said he prayed for the relatives. “Ynwa Jota!” He added with a view to the club logan “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.
The President of the Portuguese Football Association, Pedro Proença, wrote in his mourning message in online networks that Jota was “an extraordinary person, respected by all his co-players”, who was “blessed” with a contagious happiness and down-to-earthness. The death of Diogo and his brother is an “irreplaceable loss for Portuguese football”.
Great grief after the death of Diogo Jota – Uefa and Portugal’s head of government react
The German Football Association (DFB), the British Football Association, the Premier League and Jota’s former clubs also expressed their grief. FC Liverpool said that the entire club was “destroyed”. Out of respect for the relatives’ privacy, the association did not want to comment on the death message, but ensured his “full support” to the bereaved. Before the Field Stadium, fans laid out flowers and fans scarves to commemorate Jota, as British media reported.
The European Football Association UEFA also commented “deeply sad”. He announced that at the games of the current European Football Championship of women in Switzerland, there will be a minute’s silence for Jota and his brother in the stadium before all games on Thursday and Friday.
Portugal’s Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said in online service X that this was “a sad day for football and national and international sport”. He expressed his condolences to the relatives after these “unexpected and tragic” deaths.
The British Prime Minister Keir Strander said that his sympathy was first and foremost’s sympathy, but also the “millions” of football fans, who were “shocked” about the death message. The British Minister of Culture Lisa Nandy condolized on behalf of the entire lower house. (AFP)
