Mourners to gather for Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota’s wake in Portugal
Funerals for Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva will take place on Saturday, local parish priest says
Mourners are set to gather to honour Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota at a wake in Portugal on Friday, a local parish priest has said.
The 28-year-old father of three, who had married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso just 11 days ago, died in a car crash in Spain alongside his brother Andre Silva after a Lamborghini they were travelling in veered off the road and burst into flames following a suspected tyre blowout.
The pair were found dead following the crash on the A-52 in Palacios de Sanabria near the city of Zamora at 12.40am local time on Thursday.
Jose Manuel Macedo, parish priest at the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar in Sao Cosme, told the PA news agency in a translated message that a wake for the brothers would take place at 8am at the nearby Capela da Ressurreicao before their funeral at the Igreja Matriz on Saturday at 10am.
Tributes from the football world and beyond flooded in for the Portuguese forward on Thursday.
Liverpool manager Arne Slot said the “sense of shock is absolute” for the club.