Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota has died in a automotive crash, in accordance with experiences from Spain.
Simply earlier than 9am GMT on Thursday morning, Marca reported that the 28-year-old and his brother Andre had been killed when the car during which they had been travelling went off the highway and caught fireplace. The tragedy occurred on the A-52 within the province of Zamora.
The information was subsequently corroborated by a number of UK media retailers, with the Every day Mail, Sky Information, Liverpool Echo and BBC all confirming additional particulars from Spanish information company EFE.
Zamora Information have reported that emergency companies had been known as to the scene shortly earlier than 1am on Thursday morning, with the car heading in direction of close by Benavente.
Diogo married his long-time accomplice Rute Cardoso, with whom he has three kids, solely 11 days in the past in his native Portugal.
The Portuguese Soccer Federation have launched an announcement during which they expressed their ‘deepest condolences to the household and pals’ of the 2 males killed within the crash, with the Liverpool ahead being described as ‘an extraordinary particular person, revered by all teammates and opponents, somebody with a contagious pleasure and a reference inside his personal group’.
It provides that the deaths of the brothers ‘represents irreparable losses for Portuguese soccer’.
Everybody at Empire of the Kop expresses their deepest sympathies to the household and pals of Diogo and Andre and is extraordinarily saddened to listen to this tragic information.
