In Gondomar, Portuguese municipality in the Porto district, he staged The last moved greeting to the Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota and his brother André Silvaalso a player, in Liga Portugal 2 with the Penafiel shirt. T
The players, the former players and managers present in the mother church of Gondomar, where the funerals took place, once the funeral procession left the chapel of the resurrection. In the front row, in addition to relatives, the players, led by Captain Virgil Van Dijk, the coach Arne Slot, the technical staff and the Reds managers. Among these also the Italian Federico Chiesa.
The floral crowns of Liverpool is beautiful: Van Dijk and Andrew Robertson brought two shirts made with red flowers, with printed above the numbers 20 and 30, or those of Diogo Jota and his brother. Also present was the technical commissioner of Portugal, Roberto Martinez, and some stars of the national team, including Bernardo Silva and Bruno Fernandes, as well as Ruben Neves – who brought the coffin of Diogo Jota -, who arrived directly from the United States, after playing the match of the Club World Cup between “his” at Hilal and the Fluminense last night. Many, especially on social media, noted, on the other hand, the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo. To bring André Silva’s coffin, on the other hand, were the players of Penafiel.
In the meantime, around Anfield have become many flowers of flowers and Reds scarves posted by Liverpool supporters to remember the Portuguese player. Last night, finally, a touching moment. In Cardiff, at the “MARRETity Stadium”, the Gallagher brothers, who have always been very fans of Manchester City, in concert to celebrate the Oasis reunion, dedicated their song “Live Forever” to the player of the disappeared Liverpool. The pain ideally united how much the last Premier League had “divided”: then Diogo and André Silva “Live Forever skirt”, paraphrasing the popular British band.
In England, in the meantime, the media report the news that Liverpool has announced the withdrawal of Jota’s number 20 shirt will pay the family of the remaining two years of contract to the family that linked the Portuguese player to the Premier League club.
Meanwhile, yesterday, after the transfer of the corpses from Spain, the place of the tragic accident on Thursday, where the two players lost their lives, the funeral vigil, which took part, among others, the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo De Sousa, the number one of the Federcalcio of Portugal, Pedro Proenca, and the president of the port, André Villas-Bas, also present today, also took place. Also yesterday Liverpool made official the decision to collect the number 20 shirt by Diogo Jota, following the many requests received in this sense, after a large campaign carried out on social media and on the web by fans and enthusiasts.
The farewell to Jota in Portugal, many stars but not Cr7
Many players present, with old and new teammates such as Captain Virgil Van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Alexis Mac Allister, Darwin Nùnez, Ibrahima Konatè and Caoimhin Kelleher at the Reds coach, Arne Slot, in addition to the compatriots Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Bruno Fernandes and Joao Fèlix and at the CT of Portugal, Roberto Martinez. Instead, the captain of the national team, Cristiano Ronaldo, was missing, an absence that aroused controversy also because CR7 was on vacation in Majorca and was spotted several times in yachts with local media.
Instead, there were the president and the Portuguese Prime Minister, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Luis Montenegro, in addition to the agent Jorde Mendes, the president of the port (former Jota team), Andre Villas-Boas. “Football is truly in mourning,” the president of the Portuguese Football Association, Pedro Proenca, told the funeral, “Diogo was an icon of talent that expresses Portuguese football”.
Long applause accompanied the arrival of the two coffins in the Igreja Matriz de Goiania church. To give farewell to the 28 -year -old striker and the 25 -year -old brother a crowd composed of fans and simple citizens of the area who brought flowers and wanted to express their closeness to the family members and colleagues of Diogo and Andrè Silva. In the homily the bishop of Porto, Manuel Linda, I know is aimed at Jota’s wife, Rute Cardoso, and their three young children ensuring that “solidarity in love is increasingly stronger than death”.
From Cardiff, in Wales, the tribute of the Oasis had arrived who during their first reunion concert dedicated to Jota ‘Live Forever’.