{"id":14787,"date":"2025-07-05T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/jota-liverpool-and-portugal-mourn-footballer-at-emotional-funeral\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:30:56","slug":"jota-liverpool-and-portugal-mourn-footballer-at-emotional-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/jota-liverpool-and-portugal-mourn-footballer-at-emotional-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Jota: Liverpool and Portugal Mourn Footballer at Emotional Funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"Family, friends, and colleagues, both present and past, gathered to pay tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva. The funerals were held in Gondomar, Portugal, on Saturday morning.\n\nDiogo Jota, 28, and Andr\u00e9, 25, lost their lives in a car accident near Zamora, Spain, in the early hours of Thursday.\n\n
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Los ata\u00fades de Diogo Jota y Andr\u00e9 Silva son llevados por familiares, ex compa\u00f1eros de equipo y amigos a la iglesia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nCurrent and former Liverpool teammates, including club captain Virgil Van Dijk and coach Arne Slot, carried two red floral arrangements in the shape of a jersey to the chapel.\n\nThe floral arrangement carried by Van Dijk had the number 20 written with white flowers, the number that Jota wore on his Liverpool jersey. The other one had the number 30, used by Jota’s brother, who played for FC Pe\u00f1afiel in the second division of Portugal.\n\nDressed in black and with their heads bowed, the teammates entered the church in silence. The only sound was the applause of the crowd outside.\n\n
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El entrenador del Liverpool, Arne Slot, sale de la iglesia despu\u00e9s de la ceremonia f\u00fanebre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nRute Cardoso, who married Jota weeks before the tragic accident, arrived with family members.\n\nAlso present were Portuguese national team colleagues Bruno Fernandes, Jo\u00e3o Cancelo, Renato Veiga, Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix, Jos\u00e9 Fonte, Danilo and Adrien Silva.\n\nBernardo Silva was seen carrying flowers as he entered the church. The Liverpool team delegation also arrived.\n\nHundreds of residents of Gondomar, a small town in northern Portugal where Jota grew up, gathered outside.\n\nThe private service for family and close friends was presided over by the bishop of Porto, Manuel Linda.\n\nIn an emotional homily addressed to Jota’s parents, his wife, and his three young children, Linda said that “solidarity in love is always stronger than death”.\n\nPenafiel players carried Andr\u00e9’s coffin to the church. R\u00faben Neves helped carry Jota’s coffin. Jota’s wife was consoled by her family as she followed the coffins.\n\n
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El centrocampista del Manchester City, Bernardo Silva, llega a los funerales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

I can’t even imagine the pain of the family, of Rute, of the children, of the parents. I must speak a little about Jota, who was a great friend to all of us.<\/p>Bernardo Silva<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nBernardo Silva shared his feelings: “His career, although not the most important thing, speaks for itself. His passion, will, and determination allowed him to succeed in life and have a brilliant career. More important than that, as a person… the memories that remain… Jota will remain in our hearts forever. He will always be present at all breakfasts, lunches, dinners, national team meetings, PlayStation or card games.”\n\n“It’s a very hard episode for all of us, because we spend a lot of time together. The memories I have with him are fantastic. These happy memories will remain; he will be present in every victory. I’m sure we will remember him with great joy every day… [It’s] a very sad moment for all of us. Number 20 was already special, and now it will be even more so.\n\n“We were rivals and teammates for many years. He became a great friend; he was present at my wedding. Unfortunately, I was not at his, because I was at the Club World Cup. It is a family that will always be with us and that we will try to preserve.”\n\nDiogo Jota and Rute got married in Porto on June 22, after knowing each other since childhood.\n\n

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La esposa de Diogo Jota, Rute Cardoso (centro, a la derecha), y su hermana reaccionan mientras sus ex compa\u00f1eros de equipo llevan el ata\u00fad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nManuel Linda shared a special message for Jota’s three young children, who did not attend the service.\n\n

Dear Dinis, Mafalda and Duarte, children who are not here. At this moment they suffer immensely or perhaps not, because they do not realize it. I will pray a lot for you. Those who suffer the most are your mother and your grandparents.<\/p>Manuel Linda<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFurthermore, he added: “Seeing the remains of a child must be a great storm, but when there are two urns there are no words. But there are feelings. We are here to say that we also suffer a lot.”\n\nTributes to Jota and his brother have flooded social media, while thousands of fans have gone to Anfield stadium to pay their respects to the Liverpool striker.\n\nJota played 182 matches for Liverpool since joining from Wolverhampton Wonderers in 2020. He lifted the Premier League title in May, after previously winning the FA Cup and two Carabao Cups in his five years at the club.\n\nFurthermore, he was an international player for Portugal on 49 occasions and recently won the UEFA Nations League, a feat he also achieved in 2019.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Family, friends, and colleagues, both present and past, gathered to pay tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva. The funerals were held in Gondomar, Portugal, on Saturday morning. Diogo Jota, 28, and Andr\u00e9, 25, lost their lives in a car accident near Zamora, Spain, in the early hours of Thursday. Current and former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14788,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3097,5256,5327,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-14787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-diogo-jota","10":"tag-funeral","11":"tag-liverpool"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787","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=14787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}