Diogo Jota funeral: Latest as former Liverpool player is laid to rest near Porto
The brothers were driving to a ferry to travel to Britain when their Lamborghini veered off the road and burst into flames after midnight on Thursday, having suffered a tyre blowout while overtaking in the Spanish province of Zamora.
Jota's Liverpool team-mates and manager Arne Slot arrived in the small Portuguese town of Gondomar on Friday and will pay their respects to the forward and his brother, Andre Silva.
They are expected to join the grieving family and hundreds of residents of Gondomar, where Jota grew up, for the funeral at the Igreja Matriz church.
Rute Cardoso, who married Jota just weeks ago, is expected to be accompanied by the couple's three young children.
Cardoso, who had described their wedding as a 'dream come true', was consoled by other family members while close friends were seen hugging and crying after leaving the wake.
Luis Montenegro, the Prime Minister of Portugal, attended the wake. So did Jorge Mendes, the super agent who represented Jota, and former Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas, as well as Manchester United defender Diogo Dalot.
Liverpool's head coach Slot has said everyone associated with the club owed it to Jota to 'stand together and be there for one another'. 'For us, as a club, the sense of shock is absolute,' he said. 'Diogo was not just our player. He was a loved one to all of us. He was a team-mate, a colleague, a workmate and in all of those roles he was very special.
'We need everyone at the club to stand together and to be there for one another. We owe this to Diogo, to Andre Silva, to their wider family and to ourselves.'
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