Diogo Jota, Liverpool soccer star, dead alongside brother in car crash
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Diogo Jota had recently gotten married to his longtime girlfriend — his high-school sweetheart — Rute Cardoso, just 10 days before his death.
Liverpool soccer player Diogo Jota was killed in a car crash in Spain when the Lamborghini he was in veered off a road and burst into flames, police said Thursday. He was 28.
The Portuguese soccer star’s 25-year-old brother, André Silva, also died in the car crash near the northwestern city of Zamora, authorities said.
The crash occurred past midnight local time. Police said they were investigating the causes of the crash and the bodies were undergoing forensic analysis. Authorities have not confirmed which brother was behind the wheel of the car when the crash occurred.
“In the absence of a conclusion of the experts evidence, everything points that a car left the road, due to a tire blowout while overtaking,” the police said.
The brothers were driving eastward along an isolated stretch of highway, about an hour west of Zamora, when the crash took place.
“The car was incinerated, and they died inside,” Spanish government official Ángel Blanco said.
Jota and Silva, both Portuguese soccer players, were the only ones in the car, according to police.
Jota had recently gotten married to his longtime girlfriend — his high-school sweetheart — Rute Cardoso, on June 22, just 10 days before his death. They share three children.
