{"id":14469,"date":"2025-07-03T08:49:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/diogo-jota-and-brother-die-world-football-in-mourning-for-tragic-accident\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T08:49:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:49:37","slug":"diogo-jota-and-brother-die-world-football-in-mourning-for-tragic-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/diogo-jota-and-brother-die-world-football-in-mourning-for-tragic-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota and brother die: World football in mourning for tragic accident"},"content":{"rendered":"The world of soccer is in mourning following the tragic loss of Diogo Jota and his brother Andr\u00e9, who died in a traffic accident in Zamora.\n\nThe event, which has shocked the football community, occurred on the A-52 motorway, at kilometer 65.300 in Cernadilla, Spain. The vehicle in which the brothers were traveling was completely burned out.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We have lost two champions. The disappearance of Diogo and Andr\u00e9 Silva is an irreparable loss for Portuguese football and we will do everything possible to honor their legacy every day.<\/p><cite>Pedro Proen\u00e7a, President of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe news has generated a wave of reactions and messages of condolence from various institutions and personalities in the sports field.\n\nThe Prime Minister of Portugal, Lu\u00eds Montenegro, expressed his sorrow, calling the day &#8220;sad&#8221; for football and sport.\n\nLiverpool, the team where Diogo Jota played, declared itself &#8220;devastated&#8221; by the loss of the player.\n\nIn Anfield stadium, fans have begun to pay tribute to Diogo Jota, with flags at half-mast.\n\nThe Football Association (FA) and the Premier League also expressed their dismay.\n\nThe British Minister for Culture and Sport, Lisa Nandy, confirmed the news before the British Parliament, expressing the dismay of the House.\n\nThe British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, expressed his sorrow and asked for understanding for the family and friends of the deceased.\n\nWolverhampton Wanderers, the club where Diogo Jota played for three years, expressed their pain.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico de Madrid also spoke out, sending their condolences to the family and loved ones.\n\nThe Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and LaLiga have also expressed their condolences.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world of soccer is in mourning following the tragic loss of Diogo Jota and his brother Andr\u00e9, who died in a traffic accident in Zamora. The event, which has shocked the football community, occurred on the A-52 motorway, at kilometer 65.300 in Cernadilla, Spain. The vehicle in which the brothers were traveling was completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[742,5256,2123,5270],"class_list":{"0":"post-14469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-diogo-jota","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-zamora"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469","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=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}