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Gary Neville has penned a heartfelt tribute to Diogo Jota aft quality emerged of his tragic decease successful the aboriginal hours of Thursday morning.
The Liverpool star, alongside his brother, Andre Silva, were killed successful a clang successful Spain, aggregate outlets person reported. In absorption to the news, Neville has tweeted: "That is heartbreaking quality connected Diogo Jota and his brother. All my emotion and champion wishes to his family."
A connection from section constabulary has been fixed to the BBC, which states: "The accusation we person truthful acold is that the car, which was a Lamborghini, was successful a roadworthy postulation mishap and near the roadworthy owed to a tyre stroke retired portion overtaking."
"It was successful the aboriginal hours, 00:30 BST, successful the municipality of Cernadilla successful the state of Zamora. The car caught connected occurrence and the 2 occupants were killed."
"When asked to corroborate the identities of those progressive successful the accident, the Guardia Civil said: "The subordinate and his brother, Andre Felipe."
Liverpool FC are yet to springiness remark astatine the clip of writing, portion the player's erstwhile club, FC Porto person besides penned a tribute to Jota and Silva.
The LFC prima had joined his semipermanent spouse and the parent of his 3 children, Rute Cardoso, conscionable 2 weeks ago, portion images of their wedding had been flooded implicit societal media.
Jota was a immense portion of Liverpool's occurrence implicit the past 5 years since helium joined from Wolves successful 2020, winning the Premier League, FA Cup and League Cup.
He scored 65 goals successful 182 games successful each competitions, portion besides being isolated of the roster that made the Champions League last successful 2022, losing to Real Madrid.
Jota had been a beloved subordinate of the team, by players and fans alike, having his ain chant which is 1 of the Kop's favourite to sing - particularly soon aft helium scores a goal.
The 29-year-old had been a favourite nether some Jurgen Klopp and Arne Slot, being deployed arsenic a starter erstwhile readily disposable for the squad portion having an exceptional extremity grounds astatine Anfield.
Jota besides represented his state astatine planetary level, scoring 14 goals successful 49 elder appearances for Portugal.
He helped his state triumph the Nations League twice, with the 2nd of those victories coming conscionable past month, with him playing a captious role.
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