Diogo Jota's widow Rute Cardoso pays heartbreaking tribute a month on from wedding – that came just days before crash
Rute Cardoso, 28, posted a trio of images of the happy couple on their big day which came just 10 days before the Liverpool star's tragic death.
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The touching post read: "1 month of our 'until death do us part'.
"For ever, your white girl."
It was shared alongside a trio of heartbreaking images from the couple's wedding.
One has them walking hand-in-hand with their wedding rings on show.
The other two appear to be taken from their first dance at the grand ceremony.
Jota was reportedly heading to catch a ferry and return to the UK when he died in a car crash alongside his brother at the start of July.
The 28-year-old Portuguese forward was driving through Zamora, Spain in a Lamborghini when his flat tyre suddenly burst and sent the car veering off the road.
His brother André Silva, 25, who played for Portuguese second-tier club Penafiel, was also in the car when it caught fire after crashing.
The sporting world was left in shock after the brother's deaths were confirmed.
Thousands paid their respects to the Premier League champion and sent their condolences to Rute and the children.
Jota had married his high school sweetheart less than two weeks before the fatal accident.
The couple met at school as teenagers and had been together for 13 years.
They shared sons Dinis, four, and Duarte, two, and a baby girl.
The footballer had only just left his young family hours earlier after having lunch with them in a paradise Atlantic Ocean resort dubbed 'the most beautiful land" in Portugal.
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