Ex-Liverpool captain Henderson & Everton's Beto lay wreaths for tragic Diogo Jota as family gathers for funeral tomorrow
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FORMER Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson wiped away a tear as he laid flowers and paid his respects to Diogo Jota.
Everton striker Beto also arrived at Liverpool's home to mourn the loss of the football champion.
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Former Liverpool FC captain Jordan Henderson reacts as he lays flowers and pays his respects to Diogo Jota at Anfield
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Henderson was seen weeping as he laid flowers and paid his respect to Diogo Jota
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The former skipper played with Jota from 2020 to 2023
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Everton players Beto and Youssef Chermiti, and former player Ian Snodin lay tributes at Tributes at Anfield Stadium
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Everton soccer player Beto pays tribute to Liverpool's Portuguese soccer player Diogo Jota
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Diogo Jota of Liverpool celebrates with teammates Darwin Nunez and Jordan Henderson after scoring the team's fourth goal against Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield
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Tragedy transcended club rivalries when Beto laid a wreath in memory of the Kop hero who tragically lost his life in a horror crash yesterday.
He was among the many footie stars to have paid their tributes to the champion footballer.
Beto was joined by his teammate Youssef Chermiti and club legend Ian Snodin - honouring Jota's ability to bring together figures from across club rivalries.
Meanwhile, touching pictures shared by the Liverpool Football Club showed an emotional Henderson mourning the loss of his former teammate outside the Anfield Stadium.
Henderson and Jota played together at Liverpool between September 2020 and June 2023.
It comes as Jota's grieving wife was consoled by relatives amid emotional scenes at his funeral chapel today.
Rute Cardoso - who married the Liverpool ace just 11 days earlier - arrived at Sao Cosme Chapel in his home town of Gondomar near Porto, northern Portugal, early this morning.
Rute, the 28-year-old mum of the striker's three young children, returned with her partner's body after his car smash death in Spain alongside his footballer brother Andre Silva, 25.
Gondomar townsfolk gathered yesterday, sporting football shirts and carrying floral tributes as a shrine grew at a nearby sports club.
Kop idol Jota, 28, died instantly when his hired acid green £210,000 Lamborghini supercar suffered a suspected tyre blowout and crashed in a fireball on the A52 highway in Zamora province, northern Spain.
The brothers were killed instantly in the horror en route to the Spanish port city of Santander to catch a ferry to the UK after the Portugal star was urged not to travel by plane following lung surgery.
Their distraught mother Isabel and their grandfather were also spotted at the chapel this morning.
Tearful family members were seen hugging each other before walking together towards the chapel.
What we know so far:
The wake proper is set to start around 4pm, with Portugal's president Marcelo de Sousa among those arriving to pay respects.
Crowds began gathering on Thursday night near the chapel - the Capela da Ressurreicao on the outskirts of Porto - and applauded as the brothers' coffins arrived at 11.30pm.
A funeral ceremony will take place next door at the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar at 10am on Saturday.
It is unclear whether tomorrow's proceedings will be open to the public.
The sad homecoming came less than 24 hours after the deaths - in keeping with Portuguese tradition to hold wakes and funerals promptly.
Tributes have been flooding in since the horrific news, including from Jota's Portugal teammate Cristiano Ronaldo, former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and current Reds boss Arne Slot.
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