Rúben Neves and João Cancelo flew to Portugal following Al Hilal’s 2-1 defeat to Fluminense within the Membership World Cup quarterfinals for the funeral of former teammate Diogo Jota. Neves served as a pallbearer for his shut pal together with his brother André Silva in Spain on Thursday.
Jota was 28 years outdated, Silva was 26.
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Previous to the match with Fluminense, Neves posted a tribute to Jota .
“Wherever you’re, I do know you are going to learn this, we have by no means been one for this form of factor and possibly now I will remorse it somewhat,” Neves wrote on . “However you realize what you imply to me simply as a lot as I do know what I’m to you.”
“Once I go to the nationwide workforce, you will nonetheless be by my facet on the dinner desk, on the bus, on the aircraft… you will all the time be there with me, as regular,” he continued. “We’ll hold laughing, planning, sharing our lives with one another. I will be sure you’re all the time there and I will be certain that your loved ones by no means lacks something when you’re there, distant however considering of us, ready for us…”
Throughout a second of silence earlier than the Membership World Cup match started, Neves and Cancelo broke down with emotion for his or her former teammate.
Gamers and workers from Liverpool, for whom Jota performed within the Premier League, additionally traveled to Portugal for the funeral. Amongst these in attendance had been captain Virgil van Dijk and supervisor Arne Slot.
Jota initially joined Liverpool in 2020, scoring 47 targets with 15 assists in his 79 begins with the workforce, which for the 2024-25 season.
Virgil van Dijk and Andrew Robertson of Liverpool FC, carry floral tributes for Diogo Jota and Andre Silva at their funeral in Gondomar, Portugal. (Photograph by Octavio Passos/Getty Photographs)
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Jota’s demise all through on Friday. Throughout Chelsea’s Membership World Cup match with Palmeiras, Jota’s Portugal teammate Pedro Neto introduced a jersey with the names Diogo and André onto the pitch.
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Portuguese tennis gamers Nuno Borges and Francisco Cabral wore black ribbons throughout their matches at Wimbledon on Friday, because the All-England Membership relaxed its all-white costume code to permit the gamers to pay tribute.
On the first present of their reunion tour in Cardiff, Wales, the rock band in his Liverpool jersey projected behind the stage.
The reason for the crash that killed Jota and Silva remains to be ongoing. Police have no idea who was driving the automotive and whether or not or not a blown tire precipitated the crash. The automobile, a Lamborghini, was in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene.
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The Spanish Civil Guard later that Jota and Silva had been killed within the crash, and their our bodies had been returned to Portugal for the funeral.