{"id":29704,"date":"2025-08-30T05:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/neves-inherits-jotas-number-21-in-portugal-homage-and-motivation-for-the-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T05:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:10:12","slug":"neves-inherits-jotas-number-21-in-portugal-homage-and-motivation-for-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/neves-inherits-jotas-number-21-in-portugal-homage-and-motivation-for-the-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Neves inherits Jota’s number 21 in Portugal: Homage and motivation for the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"The number 21 jersey worn by Diogo Jota in the Portugal national team will be inherited by his friend and teammate R\u00faben Neves, according to an announcement by coach Robert Mart\u00ednez.\n\nMart\u00ednez made this announcement when presenting Portugal’s first call-up after the death of Jota, who lost his life along with his brother Andr\u00e9 Silva in a traffic accident in northern Spain on July 3rd.\n\n

This is the first gathering without Diogo Jota. We know what Diogo meant to each of us, the impact he had on our lives. We want to honor his memory every day.<\/p>Robert Mart\u00ednez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe coach highlighted Jota’s importance to the team and how his legacy will continue to inspire the players.\n\nThe coach added that the team will carry Jota’s spirit in their hearts and will seek to win for him, for his brother, and for all the Portuguese people.\n\nMart\u00ednez also revealed that the number of players called up will be 23 + 1, in honor of Diogo.\n\n

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Diogo Jota y R\u00faben Neves celebraron juntos la victoria de la UEFA Nations League con Portugal en junio.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nNeves, who was one of Jota’s closest friends, was one of the pallbearers at his funeral.\n\nJota’s last appearance with Portugal was in the Nations League final against Spain in June.\n\n

I think Diogo’s absence is a sign of unity, motivation and responsibility, because Diogo wanted to win the World Cup. That’s why we are here to fight and do everything possible to achieve our dream. I can also inform that Diogo Jota’s shirt number, 21, now goes to R\u00faben Neves, and so he remains with all of us on the field.<\/p>Robert Mart\u00ednez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAfter Jota’s death, Neves shared a moving message on Instagram.\n\n

R\u00faben Neves’s Instagram post<\/a><\/p>\n\nBoth Martinez and Neves have expressed their determination to win the World Cup to honor Jota.\n\nPortugal will begin its path towards qualification for next year’s World Cup in North America with matches against Armenia and Hungary on September 6th and 9th, respectively.\n\nIn Mart\u00ednez’s call-up, the presence of Cristiano Ronaldo and Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix stands out.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number 21 jersey worn by Diogo Jota in the Portugal national team will be inherited by his friend and teammate R\u00faben Neves, according to an announcement by coach Robert Mart\u00ednez. Mart\u00ednez made this announcement when presenting Portugal’s first call-up after the death of Jota, who lost his life along with his brother Andr\u00e9 Silva […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[5256,969,5372,522],"class_list":{"0":"post-29704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-diogo-jota","9":"tag-portugal","10":"tag-ruben-neves","11":"tag-world-cup"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704","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=29704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}