{"id":14262,"date":"2025-07-03T05:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/diogo-jota-liverpool-and-portugal-star-dies-in-car-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T05:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:40:16","slug":"diogo-jota-liverpool-and-portugal-star-dies-in-car-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/diogo-jota-liverpool-and-portugal-star-dies-in-car-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota, Liverpool and Portugal star, dies in car accident"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\nLiverpool and Portuguese national team striker Diogo Jota has died along with his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, in a car accident near Zamora, Spain, early Thursday morning, the Civil Guard informed The Associated Press. He was 28 years old.\n\nThe news was confirmed by the Portuguese Prime Minister, Lu\u00eds Montenegro, and the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).\n\nThe tragic event occurs a few weeks after Jota married his long-time partner, Rute Cardoso, with whom he had three children.\n\nThe Spanish Civil Guard confirmed that Jota and his brother were found dead after their car ran off the road near the Spanish city.\n\nAuthorities are investigating the causes of the incident, and indicated that no other vehicles were involved. The Provincial Council of Zamora, which was the first to report the accident, indicated that the car caught fire.\n\nJota played 182 matches with Liverpool since he arrived from Wolves in 2020. In May, he lifted the Premier League title, after having previously won the FA Cup and two Carabao Cups in his five years at the club.\n\nHe began his career at the Portuguese Pa\u00e7os de Ferreira and also played for Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid and FC Porto.\n\nFurthermore, Jota was an international player for Portugal 49 times, winning the UEFA Nations League in 2019 and again last month, scoring 14 goals.\n\nHis brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, 25 years old, was also a professional footballer, playing in the Portuguese lower division club Penafiel.\n\nThe Portuguese Football Federation and the entire Portuguese football community are devastated by the death of Diogo Jota and Andr\u00e9 Silva in Spain this morning.\n\nThe FPF added: “Diogo Jota was not only a fantastic player with almost 50 international matches, but also an extraordinary person who was respected by all his teammates and opponents. He had a contagious joy and was a reference point in his own community.”\n\nThe Portuguese Football Federation has requested UEFA to observe a minute of silence before the national team’s match against Spain in the Women’s European Championship on Thursday.\n\nWe have lost two champions. Their deaths represent irreparable losses for Portuguese football, and we will do everything possible to honor their legacy every day.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool and Portuguese national team striker Diogo Jota has died along with his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, in a car accident near Zamora, Spain, early Thursday morning, the Civil Guard informed The Associated Press. He was 28 years old. The news was confirmed by the Portuguese Prime Minister, Lu\u00eds Montenegro, and the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[742,5256,138,969],"class_list":{"0":"post-14262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-diogo-jota","10":"tag-liverpool","11":"tag-portugal"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}