{"id":15208,"date":"2025-07-07T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-starts-pre-season-on-tuesday-after-tragic-loss-of-diogo-jota\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:44:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:44:00","slug":"liverpool-starts-pre-season-on-tuesday-after-tragic-loss-of-diogo-jota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-starts-pre-season-on-tuesday-after-tragic-loss-of-diogo-jota\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool starts pre-season on Tuesday after tragic loss of Diogo Jota"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Liverpool Prepares for Pre-Season Amidst Mourning for Diogo Jota<\/h2>\n\nLiverpool players are ready to start their pre-season training this Tuesday, following the tragic death of striker Diogo Jota, according to sources close to the team.\n\nJota, 28, and his brother Andr\u00e9 Silva, 25, lost their lives in a car accident in northwestern Spain last week.\n\nLiverpool manager Arne Slot and several first-team members attended the funeral of the brothers in Gondomar, Portugal, on Saturday.\n\nInitially, some players were to report for preseason testing last Friday, but those plans were postponed due to Jota&#8217;s passing.\n\nThe team is now expected to report to the AXA Training Centre on Tuesday to begin preparations for the new season.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0707%2Fr1515989_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Miles de mensajes y ofrendas florales han sido dejados fuera de Anfield desde la muerte de Diogo Jota.\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Miles de mensajes y ofrendas florales han sido dejados fuera de Anfield desde la muerte de Diogo Jota.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nLiverpool has scheduled a pre-season friendly against Championship side Preston North End at Deepdale on Sunday, although it is not yet clear whether the match will take place.\n\nIn recent days, thousands of messages and floral tributes have been left outside Anfield as a mark of respect for Jota and his brother.\n\nIn a statement, Liverpool described the death of the brothers as an &#8220;unimaginable&#8221; loss.\n\nCaptain Virgil van Dijk expressed his &#8220;absolute devastation and total disbelief&#8221; at the news.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool Prepares for Pre-Season Amidst Mourning for Diogo Jota Liverpool players are ready to start their pre-season training this Tuesday, following the tragic death of striker Diogo Jota, according to sources close to the team. Jota, 28, and his brother Andr\u00e9 Silva, 25, lost their lives in a car accident in northwestern Spain last week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[742,5256,5327,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-15208","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-funeral","11":"tag-liverpool"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208","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=15208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}