Emotional Scenes as Diogo Jota and Brother’s Remains Arrive for Funeral in Portugal

• Mourners will assemble this morning for a wake at Capela de Ressurreição, with the funeral scheduled for Saturday at the nearby Igreja Matriz.

The bodies of Diogo Jota and his brother, André Silva, like arrived at a church in Gondomar, Portugal, sooner than their funeral following a tragic automobile smash on July 3.

Mourners will assemble this morning for a wake at Capela de Ressurreição, with the funeral scheduled for Saturday at the nearby Igreja Matriz.

The brothers, aged 28 and 26, died in a fiery smash after the tyre of Jota’s Lamborghini reportedly burst whereas overtaking.

They like been en path to fetch a ferry to the UK, as Jota had no longer too prolonged ago gone thru lung surgical blueprint and became informed no longer to hover.

In the intervening time GISTLOVER reported that Cristiano Ronaldo, the renowned captain of Portugal’s national team, has expressed disbelief over the death of Diogo Jota, saying it “doesn’t invent sense.”

Jota, a Liverpool ahead, tragically misplaced his existence in a automobile accident in the early hours of Thursday. He became traveling alongside with his brother, Andre — also a footballer — at the time.

Ronaldo wrote on social media: “Doesn’t invent any sense. Honest correct-looking out now we like been collectively in the National Team, wonderful now you like been married.”

“To your family, to your wife and children, I ship my condolences and need them the total strength on this planet.

“I do know that you simply may well consistently be with them. R.I.P. Diogo and Andre. We would possibly be in a position to all omit you.”