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Chelsea caput manager Enzo Maresca has paid tribute to Diogo Jota aft the Liverpool guardant tragically passed distant connected Thursday morning.
Jota, who was conscionable 28-years-old, was progressive successful a car mishap successful the Spanish state of Zamora. The Portuguese and his brother, Andre Silva, sadly passed away.
Maresca, his unit and players each paid their respects to Jota connected Thursday wherever they held a minute's soundlessness astatine their grooming basal successful Miami. Chelsea person since flew to Philadelphia up of their FIFA Club World Cup clash against Palmeiras connected Friday and Maresca opened his pre-match property league with a connection astir Jota and his tragic passing, arsenic good arsenic a fewer words connected Pedro Neto, who was a adjacent person of his chap countryman.
The Chelsea caput manager said: "Yeah, it's a precise bittersweet day. I conflict to find words due to the fact that it's precise difficult. You know, the feeling that you are, that you consciousness a small bit, you know, helpless successful this benignant of situation, and the lone happening I tin say, you know, each my emotion to, you know, his family, the radical that successful this moment, it's a large calamity for them. And past successful presumption of Pedro, he's precise sad, astir apt much than sad, but we are besides adjacent to Pedro to enactment him successful this moment."
When asked if Neto volition diagnostic against Palmeiras connected Friday evening, Maresca explained: "It's wholly Pedro's decision. I had a chat this greeting with Pedro. We enactment him. Any determination helium volition instrumentality is the close one, and we are going to enactment him successful immoderate case. So it doesn't substance if we'll beryllium successful the transportation oregon not. Tomorrow, we'll spot however helium is feeling tomorrow. But successful immoderate case, we're gonna enactment him."
Marc Cucurella besides spoke to reporters astir Jota's death. The Spaniard said: "It's a atrocious moment. We nonstop each our emotion to the family, the wife, the kids, and I bash it from me, the full Chelsea squad, and football. Football is not important astatine times similar this. The astir important happening is that we amusement respect and each our love.
"I saw it arsenic soon arsenic I woke up. It was a hard infinitesimal due to the fact that these things tin hap to each of america successful immoderate infinitesimal and past you commencement to deliberation if you don’t consciousness good, oregon you don’t springiness 100 per cent, oregon consciousness s*** erstwhile these things happen, it’s important to beryllium blessed and unrecorded beingness each day."
Liverpool released an authoritative connection connected Thursday greeting regarding the Portuguese's death. It read: "Liverpool Football Club are devastated by the tragic passing of Diogo Jota. The nine person been informed the 28-year-old has passed distant pursuing a roadworthy postulation mishap successful Spain on with his brother, Andre.
"Liverpool FC volition beryllium making nary further remark astatine this clip and petition the privateness of Diogo and Andre's family, friends, teammates and nine unit is respected arsenic they effort to travel to presumption with an unimaginable loss. We volition proceed to supply them with our afloat support."
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