{"id":234406,"date":"2025-07-03T10:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234406\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T10:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T10:01:12","slug":"liverpool-footballer-dies-in-car-crash-aged-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/234406\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool footballer dies in car crash aged 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portuguese Football Federation has released a statement paying tribute to Jota and his brother.<\/p>\n<p>It reads: &#8220;The Portuguese Football Federation and all of Portuguese football are utterly devastated by the deaths of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva this morning in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Far beyond being an exceptional player, with nearly 50 caps for the national team, Diogo Jota was an extraordinary person, respected by all teammates and opponents, someone with a contagious joy and a reference within his own community.<\/p>\n<blockquote placeholder=\"\" data-theme=\"light\" class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p>A Federa\u00e7\u00e3o Portuguesa de Futebol e todo o Futebol portugu\u00eas est\u00e3o completamente devastados com a morte de Diogo Jota e do seu irm\u00e3o Andr\u00e9 Silva, esta madrugada, em Espanha.<\/p>\n<p>Muito mais do que o fant\u00e1stico jogador, com quase 50 internacionaliza\u00e7\u00f5es pela Sele\u00e7\u00e3o Nacional A, Diogo\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EN901fH6FG\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pic.twitter.com\/EN901fH6FG;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pic.twitter.com\/EN901fH6FG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Portugal (@selecaoportugal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/selecaoportugal\/status\/1940695932003029267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:July 3, 2025;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">July 3, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;On my behalf, and on behalf of the Portuguese Football Federation, I express our deepest condolences to the family and friends of Diogo and Andre Silva, as well as to Liverpool FC and FC Penafiel, the clubs where the players, respectively, performed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Portuguese Football Federation has already requested UEFA to observe a minute of silence this Thursday before our National Team&#8217;s match against Spain in the Women&#8217;s European Championship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lost two champions. The passing of Diogo and Andre Silva represents irreparable losses for Portuguese Football, and we will do everything to honour their legacy daily.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portuguese Football Federation has released a statement paying tribute to Jota and his brother. It reads: &#8220;The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,91787,18517,393,4884,179,91788,101,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-234406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-brother-andre","10":"tag-diogo-jota","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-palacios-de-sanabria","15":"tag-premier-league","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114788727786696147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}