Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota dies aged 28 in car crash in Spain

[Prairie Gates]

Source: CNN

• Liverpool and Portugal star Diogo Jota has died in a car crash in Spain. He was 28 and had three children with his wife, who he married last month.

• The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. local time near the municipality of Cernadilla in Zamora in northwestern Spain. Jota’s brother, André Silva, who was also a professional soccer player, also died in the crash.

Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/sport/live-news/diogo-jota-liverpool-star-dies-spain-spt

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I know a lot of people don't really follow soccer here, but Diogo Jota was a certified superstar. Liverpool won the English Premier League title this year, and he played for Portugal as well, which just won the Euro Nations League Cup this summer. This is giant (and tragic) international news.

Very sad.

[chouchou]

1. Oh Man. One can imagine when the police have tto pull up...

..to his house and his fairly new bride comes to the door. More than a few fans will shed some tears also....

[Mysterian]

2. LBN?

Maybe in sports?

[Prairie Gates]

3. Hit alert...this is the lead story in many world newspapers and newscasts

Jimmy Swagart dies was in LBN and that guy hasn't been relevant for 35 years.

[GB_RN]

6. Well...

Was Swagart even truly relevant before that? Other than being the cousin of both Mickey Gilley and Jerry Lee Lewis, a grifter and user of prostitutes, I mean?😂

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Have you no heart!?

[Polybius]

5. Wow

That's cold.

[angrychair]

7. I've been a Liverpool fan for 20 years

This is devastating news. He was an amazing footballer. One of the best to players ever produced by Portugal.

He was also a husband, father, friend, teammate, brother and son. He was an incredibly kind human being.

He will be missed but in Liverpool we are all family and with Liverpool You Never Walk Alone

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[róisín_dubh]

8. Was on the tube into London...

When the news broke. Absolutely devastated. I’ve been a Liverpool fan a long time and whilst I generally don’t fuss over celebrities’ deaths, this one hit me like a train.
Klopp’s and Virgil’s tributes were touching and terribly sad to read