Diogo Jota’s death: This is how the football world reacts shocked

There are days when football suddenly becomes so unimportant: On Thursday it became known that 28-year-old professional player Diogo Jota and his brother André died in a traffic accident. Particularly heartbreaking: The professional of FC Liverpool had only married eleven days ago, now leaves three small children and his wife Rod Cardoso.

Diogo’s misfortune shocks the football world. Many clubs and players tried to put their horror into words – even if many could hardly do it.

“That makes no sense,” wrote Cristiano Ronaldo on social networks. “We were just together with the national team, you had just just married.” Ronaldo, who was a captain in the national team, wished his widow and the three children all the power of the world. “I know that you will always be with them. Resting in peace, Diogo and André. We will miss you all.”

Diogo Jota, who also played in Liverpool under Star coach Klopp and would have been teammate from Florian Wirtz in the coming season, had shared a wedding video on Instagram shortly before his death in Spain. “A day that we will never forget,” says it.

“This is a moment when I rings with myself!”, Klopp wrote on Instagram. “There has to be a greater sense! I can’t see him! It breaks my heart to hear about Diogo and his brother André.”

At the end of May, Diogo Jota celebrated the championship with Liverpool FC Liverpool with a family picture, on which he, his wife Rut Cardoso and the three children with the cup for the champion on the pitch. In another picture, the family can be seen with three dogs.

With the title win in the Premier League, the top footballer had fulfilled a childhood dream. “It is a remarkable performance for a little boy who comes from Gondomar, where I had this dream,” he said. “It was outstanding to arrive at that moment.” His cruel death also caused dismay in politics. Portugal’s Prime Minister Luís Montenegro and the British Prime Minister Keir Strander expressed their condolences.

His club said: “The Liverpool Football Club is shaken by the tragic death of Diogo Jota,” said the club. Liverpool asked “to respect the family, friends, teammates and club employees of Diogo and André”. “We will continue to send you our full support.”

Portugal’s football legend Pepe wrote on Instagram: “With great sadness I received the news of the death of Diogo Jota and his brother André. One too, painful loss that makes us all poorer-as a colleague, as a friends and as a football lover.” Diogo Jota’s brother played for FC Penafiel in the second Portuguese league.

Ruben Neves, who played with Diogo Jota in the national team, wrote: “They say we only lose people if we forget them. I will never forget you!”

The German Football Association also commemorated Diogo Jota in a social media post. “We experienced with great dismay from the death of Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva. Our thoughts are with his family, his relatives, FC Liverpool and the Portuguese Football Association,” said the DFB team’s account with X.

The post was supplemented with the Portuguese words “Os Nossos Sentimentos” (our sympathy), a white pigeon and a black heart. The German Football League (DFL) was also shaken in a contribution on Instagram and expressed their condolences to the relatives.

The English Football Association FA (Football Association) wrote: “In view of the news about Diogo Jota’s death, we are destroyed.