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Diogo Jota's agent, Jorge Mendes, was seen successful floods of tears astatine the mortuary wherever the bodies of the precocious Liverpool prima and his member were being held.
The 28-year-old forward and his sibling, Andre Silva, tragically mislaid their lives successful a car accident. The shot satellite was shaken by the devastating quality connected Thursday greeting that Jota and his member had died pursuing a car clang successful Zamora province, Spain.
Their Lamborghini suffered a tyre blowout during an overtaking maneuver and crashed disconnected the road, bursting into flames. Tragically, some Jota and Silva were pronounced dormant astatine the scene.
Mendes, the renowned cause who has represented immoderate of the biggest names successful Portuguese football, specified arsenic Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho, had been moving with Jota since his Premier League days astatine Wolves.
After visiting the Puebla de Sanabria mortuary successful Zamora, wherever the bodies of Jota and his member were held until Thursday evening, Mendes spoke to the press.
"We mislaid 2 large people. Diogo is an illustration arsenic a person, husband, son, professional. I inactive can't judge it, it's precise difficult," Mendes said successful tears, visibly distraught.
Accompanied by Jota's mother, Mendes made the travel to Spain to enactment the bereaved family. The brothers' bodies remained astatine the mortuary until Thursday evening earlier the hearses acceptable disconnected for Jota's autochthonal municipality of Gondomar, adjacent to Porto successful Portugal.
They arrived conscionable earlier midnight to a oversea of grieving supporters, galore of whom offered applause arsenic the vehicles pulled up astir 24 hours aft the heartbreaking accident.
Jota and his brother's funerals are scheduled for 10 americium connected Saturday morning, with a vigil planned astatine Sao Cosme Chapel followed by a ceremonial work astatine Igreja Matriz de Gondomar.
Numerous clients of Mendes and planetary teammates person expressed their condolences for the precocious Jota, including Portugal skipper Ronaldo, who posted connected Instagram: "It doesn't marque sense. We were conscionable unneurotic successful the nationalist team, and you had conscionable gotten married.
"To your family, your woman and your children, I nonstop my condolences and privation them each the spot successful the world. I cognize you volition ever beryllium with them. Rest successful peace, Diogo and Andre. We volition each miss you."
Jose Mourinho, presently astatine the helm of Fenerbahce, besides made a statement: "The nonaccomplishment of Diogo Jota and his member Andre Silva is simply a large calamity and an immense injustice for idiosyncratic who was truthful young and had truthful overmuch beingness up of him. I nonstop my deepest condolences to each their household and friends."
Ruben Dias of Manchester City, who has shared galore moments connected the transportation with Jota for Portugal, conveyed his sorrow, stating: "I inactive can't judge it. You won your archetypal Premier League, we won the Nations League together, and you got married. It doesn't marque sense.
"We volition not hide you, arsenic a man, arsenic a father, arsenic a brother, arsenic a lad and arsenic the tireless and talented teammate you ever were connected the field. May you some remainder successful peace."
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