04-07-2025
Diogo Jota's Portugal teammates Bernardo Silva & Diogo Dalot arrive at Liverpool star's wake before funeral tomorrow
UNITED IN GRIEF
DIOGO Jota's Portugal teammates Bernado Silva and Diogo Dalot arrived at the Liverpool star's wake before tomorrow's funeral.
A joint funeral for Jota, 28, and his brother Andre Silva, 25, is to be held at the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar church after the devastating crash on Thursday.
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Manchester United's Diogo Dalot - Jota's international teammate - was seen attending the Capela da Ressureicao in Gondomar.
Manchester City captain Bernado Silva also arrived to pay his respects with his wife.
Despite being rivals in the Premier League, Bernado Silva and Jota never hid their friendship off the field.
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.
What we know so far:
Diogo Jota has died aged 28 in a car crash alongside his brother André
The footie star's ceremonies will begin today
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Jota only got married 10 days ago to long-term partner Rute Cardoso
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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.
Jota, 28, along with brother Andre, 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 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.
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
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.
