The first apartment of Portuguese football and Liverpool gave the last farewell this Saturday, which was the British team player Diogo Jota Already his brother Andre At the funeral held in a gondomar, on the periphery of the port, in North Portugal, where both grew.
To the matrix church of the gondomar, at which the funeral, the coach of Portugal, Spanish Roberto Martinez, who traveled from the United States (USA), where he follows, Club World Cup; President of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Pedro Permensa; And the former teammates of the national team, such as Bernardo Silva, Zhuao Mutino, Ruben Diaz, Joao Felix or Rui Patricio.
“Andre Silva and Dygo Jota with us”
“I would like to thank the presence of everyone, they were Somewhat very very sad daysBut today it was an opportunity to demonstrate that Andre Silva and Diogo Jota are with us, they will be with us, and we are all a family, ”Martinez said in a statement that he gave in Portuguese, English and Spanish, to the numerous media that moved there to cover the funeral.
The coach said that they were a “huge family” because they received messages from around the world. “We really appreciate it and always in our hearts, Andre Silva and Dyogo Jota will be with us “Martinez said
Also from the United States, according to Efa, his colleague from the national team was flying Ruben BalesSaudi al -Khilal player who got on an airplane on the way to the Iberian country, after the Brazilian Fluminland was excluded at the club world championship.
Jota 20 and Silva 30
For their part, the players and the technical team of Liverpool arrived with two flowers that played in Portuguese. Vergil defense of Van Dyck carried the 20th, while Andre Silva was carried by midfielder Jordan Henderson.
In addition, they visited the funeral, other partners and former teammates of Diogo Jota as Tiago alcántara, Fabinho, Ricardo Carvalho and Nelson SemedoAnd the one who was his agent, Jorge Mendes, in addition to Port president, Andre-Vilas Boas, whose club was played by the striker.
After entering the visitors, two coffins were taken from the resurrection chapel, immediately after the church to be delivered to the inside of the temple, accompanied by players, friends and broken relatives of painThe funeral was performed by Bishop Porto, Manuel Linda, and, despite the fact that the ceremony was private, the speakers were placed outside that the press and numerous Gondomar’s neighbors, who approached the support of the family known in the city, could hear dominance.
Message for children diogo
Linda sent a message to three minor children left by Diogo Jota: “Dear Dinis, Mafalda and Duarte, children who are not here, at present you suffer very much, or maybe not, because you do not understand”The field “I will pray a lot for you, who suffers a lot, this is your mother, your grandparents. Seeing the mortal remains of the child should be more torment, and more when they are two sarcophagi, ”the bishop said.
“It’s hard to see an adult scream, but it is more difficult to see a child. I am sending you a special greeting through your mother, grandparents. I am with you, but Jesus is also with you, ”he said. There is a fact that the player married his partner for 13 years, June 22 Ruth Cardoso, with whom he had Three minor childrenFour and two years, and eight months of a little girl.
At the end of the mass, courtship in the funeral left the church to go to the next cemetery, where two brothers were buried. At the exit to the case, Football players, technicians, relatives and friends left this place With faces of sorrow and very injured.
28 -Diogo Jota and his brother Andre, 25 years old, died on Thursday on Thursday in Road accidents on A52In Chernidalla (frost, Spain). The striker formed in Lusos of the Gondomar and Paços de Ferreira was player in 2016 and subsequently played FC Porto until 2018, when he went to the English league. Since 2020, he was a football player Liverpool. His brother Andre Felipe Silva was also a football player and played Penafiel, a team from the second division of the Portuguese.
