{"id":242784,"date":"2025-07-06T13:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242784\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T13:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T13:35:11","slug":"i-broke-down-in-tears-luis-diaz-pays-emotional-tribute-to-liverpool-team-mate-diogo-jota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/242784\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I broke down in tears’ – Luis Diaz pays emotional tribute to Liverpool team-mate Diogo Jota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luis Diaz has paid an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota in an interview after the sudden passing of his Liverpool team-mate\"LuisLuis Diaz is interviewed by Win Sports after the tragic death of his Liverpool team-mate, Diogo Jota(Image: Win Sports)<\/p>\n

Luis Diaz has paid an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota as he admitted he broke down in tears after hearing that his Liverpool team-mate had died. Jota was killed in a car crash in the early hours of Thursday morning (July 3), along with his brother, Andre Silva, after their vehicle veered off the road following a tyre blowout.<\/p>\n

Diaz<\/a> was unable to attend the funeral of the brothers, which took place in their hometown of Gondomar on Saturday (July 5).<\/p>\n

But while the Colombia international was not present, the majority of the Liverpool <\/a>squad were in attendance – along with former Reds team-mates Jordan Henderson<\/a>, James Milner<\/a>, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and Caoimhin Kelleher.<\/p>\n

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Diaz spoke to Colombian TV ahead of the funeral as he paid tribute to Jota<\/a>, revealing the impact the Portuguese had on his fellow forward during their shared time at Anfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously it\u2019s very hard. It\u2019s very hard to find out about news like that, isn\u2019t it?\u201d Diaz said on Win Sports<\/a>. \u201cThe first thing you do when you wake up is to look at the news, which is very sad because of what happened, honestly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe family among us, it caught us all off guard and I don\u2019t think anyone is prepared for that kind of news.<\/p>\n

\u201cA team-mate, instrumental in my arrival in Liverpool because his family welcomed me, he welcomed me and we became great friends.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a great, healthy rivalry and he was important. We always agree on many things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to wish him a lot of strength, give a lot of strength to his family, to his wife, to his children that he left behind. Because the truth is they must be suffering a lot from this terrible news.<\/p>\n

\u201c(It hurts) a lot, a lot. It was incredible when I woke up and saw the news. The truth is I broke down in tears. It as a very, very, very big pain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Diaz also recalled how much it meant when Jota showed his support after the Colombian’s parents were kidnapped<\/a>, by running to the sidelines and holding aloft his shirt after scoring against Nottingham Forest in October 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember that he had a very, very nice gesture towards me and that is always going to stay with me,\u201d he said. \u201cJust like I said on the photo I uploaded to social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just want to tell him to rest in peace, that I will carry a great friend with me in my heart who will always be remembered by his team, by his family, by his friends and by everyone he left behind.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Diaz has paid an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota in an interview after the sudden passing of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,18517,393,4884,179,763,8902,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-242784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-diogo-jota","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-liverpool-fc","14":"tag-luis-diaz","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114806556556649142","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242784","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=242784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}