Family, friends & Liverpool teammates gather for Diogo Jota & brother Andre's funeral in Portugal after tragic car crash
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FAMILY, friends and Liverpool teammates have gathered for Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva's funeral in Portugal after Thursday's tragic car crash.
It comes after family and friends gathered for the brothers' wake on Friday, with a queue forming outside the Portuguese chapel.
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Liverpool's Virgil Van Dijk and Andy Robertson arrive
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Liverpool's Joe Gomez and Arne Slot arrive at the funeral with Alexis Mac Allister
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Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota died in a car crash in Spain on Thursday
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Liverpool's Darwin Nunez arrives at the funeral
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John Bishop and wife Melanie attend funeral
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Media gather at the funeral of Diogo Jota being held at Igreja Matriz de Gondomar in the town of Gondomar
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A joint-funeral for Jota, 28, and his brother André Silva, 25, is being held at the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar church after the devastating crash on Thursday.
Liverpool stars Virgin Van Dijk and Andy Robertson led mourners with two touching wreathes emblazoned with Diogo's number 20 and André's number 30.
They were joined by boss Arne Slot along with fellow Reds stars such as Joe Gomez, Darwin Nunez and Alexis Mac Allister.
Other players such as Portugal and Manchester City star Bernardo Silva and Ruben Dias arrived at the funeral.
The brothers' parents attended the Sao Cosme Chapel, the Capela da Ressurreicao, in the town of Gondomar near Porto on Friday, with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro and Jota's agent also among attendees.
Manchester United's Diogo Dalot - Jota's international teammate - was seen attending the Capela da Ressureicao in Gondomar on Friday.
Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva and fellow Portuguese star also came to pay his respects with his wife.
Virgil Van Dijk, Andy Robertson and manager Arne Slot arrived alongside ex-Liverpool stars Jordan Henderson and James Milner in the early hours of Saturday.
Curtis Jones, Alexis Mac Allister, Conor Bradley, Federico Chiesa and Wataru Endo were also among the group ready to say goodbye to the beloved star.
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Jota, along with brother André, died 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 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 mother Isabel and their grandfather were also spotted at the chapel on Friday morning.
The chapel opened its doors to the public at 4pm and a 200 metre queue of locals paying their respects to the brothers quickly built up.
A line of sombre locals queued patiently in bright sunshine and were expected to be joined by players and famous pals of the pair during the even
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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