Family, friends & Liverpool teammates gather for Diogo Jota & brother Andre's funeral in Portugal after tragic car crash

The Sun

4 hours ago

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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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.
A huge crowd of mourners gathered outside the church and showed support for the brothers' friends, family, coaches and teammates as they walked in procession.
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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.