{"id":15305,"date":"2025-07-08T06:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/liverpool-resumes-training-tribute-to-diogo-jota-after-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T06:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T10:03:57","slug":"liverpool-resumes-training-tribute-to-diogo-jota-after-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/liverpool-resumes-training-tribute-to-diogo-jota-after-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool Resumes Training: Tribute to Diogo Jota After Tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"Liverpool players returned to pre-season training on Tuesday, five days after the passing of forward Diogo Jota.\n\nJota and his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, lost their lives in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday. It is believed that they were heading to a ferry in Spain to travel to the United Kingdom, where Liverpool&#8217;s pre-season would begin, when their Lamborghini went off the road and caught fire.\n\nSome Liverpool players were due to start training for the new season last Friday, but the club postponed those plans following Jota&#8217;s passing. Arne Slot and many members of the squad were present at the brothers&#8217; funeral in Gondomar, Portugal, on Saturday.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0708%2Fr1516259_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Flores y tributos en memoria de Diogo Jota se ven fuera del Centro de Entrenamiento AXA antes del entrenamiento del Liverpool el martes.\nPeter Byrne\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nOn Tuesday, Liverpool players returned to the AXA Training Centre and were met with several floral tributes, many of them bearing the words of the club anthem: &#8220;You&#8217;ll Never Walk Alone&#8221;.\n\nIt is planned that the Premier League champion will play their first friendly of the summer against Preston North End on July 13, although it is not clear at this stage whether the match will take place.\n\nIn recent days, thousands of messages and floral tributes have been placed outside Anfield as a mark of respect for Jota and his brother.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0708%2Fr1516260_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El defensa Andy Robertson llega para el inicio de la pretemporada del Liverpool el martes.\nPeter Byrne\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nTributes have also flooded social media from Jota&#8217;s teammates, both current and former.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am absolutely devastated and in total disbelief<\/p><cite>Virgil van Dijk<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Until yesterday, I never thought there would be anything that would scare me about returning to Liverpool after the break. Teammates come and go, but not like that.<\/p><cite>Mohamed Salah<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nIt will be extremely difficult to accept that Diogo won&#8217;t be there when we return.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool players returned to pre-season training on Tuesday, five days after the passing of forward Diogo Jota. Jota and his brother, Andr\u00e9 Silva, lost their lives in a car accident in the early hours of Thursday. It is believed that they were heading to a ferry in Spain to travel to the United Kingdom, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[3097,5256,138,1063],"class_list":{"0":"post-15305","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-liverpool","11":"tag-preseason"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","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=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}