Sunday, July 27, 2025

Portuguese and Liverpool Forward Diogo Dead

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Portuguese and Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has died after a car carrying him crashed in northern Spain just two weeks after he married his childhood sweetheart.

‎According to Spanish state-owned TV, citing local firefighters, the player was believed to have been travelling with his brother Andre, who is also a footballer, when the accident happened at around 12.40 am local time.

‎Jota, who married his partner Rute Cardoso in Porto two weeks ago, crashed in the province of Zamora while travelling towards Benavente when the car left the road and caught fire on the A-52, which is a key route taken by drivers leaving northern Portuga.

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The 1-1-2 Castilla y León operations room received several calls reporting a vehicle accident at Km. 65 of the A-52, in the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora. A car was reported to have been involved in an accident, and the vehicle was on fire,’ a statement read.‎‎

‘1-1-2 notified the Zamora Traffic Police, the Zamora Provincial Council Fire Brigade, and the Sacyl Emergency Coordination Centre (CCU) of this accident. ‎‎

Diogo Jota, aged 28, had signed for Liverpool Football Club in September 2020 from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of more than 40 million pounds sterling and his brother, Andre, aged 26, played for Pennafiel, a Portuguese second division club.

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