Liverpool star Diogo Jota killed in car crash
He was 28.
The Portuguese forward died in a crash near Zamora, in northwestern Spain, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.
Jota signed for Liverpool in September 2020 from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of more than £40 million.
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