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Caoimhin Kelleher has penned an affectional tribute to Diogo Jota, with the brace having go the champion of friends during their clip unneurotic astatine Liverpool.
The satellite of shot remains successful mourning for the Portuguese prima and his member Andre Silva, who died successful a car mishap connected Thursday. They had been traveling arsenic Jota had been advised not to alert pursuing surgery, with the 28-year-old having been owed to study backmost for grooming with the Reds adjacent week.
Tributes person since been flowing from Jota's Liverpool teammates, including Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson, portion Arne Slot and Jurgen Klopp person besides paid tribute. Other salient figures from astir the world, including Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, person been paying their respects.
Jota and his brother's funeral is present acceptable to instrumentality spot tomorrow (Saturday) pursuing a aftermath connected Friday, with the work acceptable to instrumentality spot successful the aforesaid municipality successful which the Liverpool prima joined his semipermanent spouse Rute conscionable past month.
Among those successful attendance astatine the wedding were Kelleher and Robertson, with the second having shared a representation of the trio with their partners arsenic portion of his tribute connected Thursday.
Kelleher has present reflected connected his ain memories of a subordinate helium would turn to go the champion of friends with astatine Anfield, with the brace adjacent taking clip to ticker Jota's member playing.
"Jots. Can’t judge I’m penning this close present and I’m uncovering it hard to enactment into words. I’m perfectly devastated by this news," Kelleher wrote successful a moving tribute connected Instagram.
"All my thoughts and condolences are with Rute and their 3 beauteous kids and Diogo and Andre’s family. It was a specified a pleasance to get to cognize you implicit these years and to stock immoderate peculiar memories connected the transportation and adjacent much truthful disconnected it.
"You became 1 of my closest friends successful football. We bonded implicit each things sports watching immoderate shot lucifer we could find often your member Andre’s crippled connected your iPad.
"I was amazed a lad from Portugal loved sports specified arsenic darts, snooker and equine racing truthful overmuch and immoderate of my champion memories were having a laughter watching them with you.
"You were specified a amusive genuine, mean down to world and loving household antheral and ever precise competitory I’m gonna miss our pre lucifer programme quiz.
"I consciousness truthful blessed and grateful to person seen you connected your happiest day, the time of your wedding and to beryllium capable to stock successful that time with you was special. I’ll ne'er hide it.
"You were profoundly loved by everyone astatine the club, the metropolis and each implicit the world. It’s gonna wounded for a agelong clip and I’m gonna miss you truthful overmuch but I consciousness truthful fortunate to person got cognize you and person specified a bully friend.
"Love you Diogo."
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