Liverpool star Diogo Jota is dead. According to reports by local media in Spain the star died following a car crash in northern Spain at the age of 28, just two weeks since he married his childhood sweetheart.
Jota is believed to have been travelling in a car with his brother Andre, 26, who is also a footballer and feared dead. The accident occurred on Thursday morning at 1:30 a.m in Zamora, northwestern Spain.
Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children.
The crashed occurred on the A-52 in the province of Zamora.
Emergency services in the Castilla and Leon region confirmed the crash.
‘The 1-1-2 Castilla y León operations room received several calls reporting a vehicle accident at Km. 65 of the A-52, in the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora. A car was reported to have been involved in an accident and the vehicle was on fire,’ a statement read.
‘1-1-2 notified the Zamora Traffic Police, the Zamora Provincial Council Fire Brigade, and the Sacyl Emergency Coordination Center (CCU) of this accident.
Jota signed for Liverpool in September 2020 from Wolverhampton Wanderers for a fee of more than £40million.
