At 28, Diogo Jota died last night in an equally fatal car accident to his little brother André Silva, 25, for his part. The drama was established in Spain not far from Zamora, about fifty kilometers from the Portuguese border, while the two young people went to Santander, in the north of the country.
Diogo Jota indeed took the road to catch a ferry towards Liverpool, where the resumption of training of the Reds is scheduled for Monday. The international striker of the Selecçao (49 capes for 14 achievements) unfortunately could not reach his goal, victim according to the first elements of the investigation of a tire bursting while he exceeded another vehicle.
This sudden incident would have caused the road release of the Lamborghini of the two Lusitanian brothers. With violence such that the racing car would have immediately ignited, reports CNN Portugal. A real tragedy for the family and relatives of the two men. Only ten days after Diogo Jota's marriage with the mother of her three children.
Diogo Jota, why the ferry rather than the plane?
The above -mentioned Portuguese media says more about the circumstances of the accident. The irony of fate turning unbearable. “” He suffered a pulmonary operation and he was not recommended to take the planeunderlines the journalist Rui Laura. He went to Santander, a port city in northern Spain, to cross in ferry and join the United Kingdom by this track, then continue on his way by car once in Great Britain. »»
On the CMTV channel, Victor Pinto assures that the Liverpool player had taken this habit when he went from Portugal to England. “” Diogo Jota sometimes chose to travel by road because he suffered from pulmonary discomfort, without gravity, and as we know, there is a ferry connecting the south of England to Spain. »»
