{"id":155847,"date":"2025-07-05T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/diogo-jotas-family-and-liverpool-players-attending-funeral-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T08:54:09","slug":"diogo-jotas-family-and-liverpool-players-attending-funeral-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/diogo-jotas-family-and-liverpool-players-attending-funeral-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota's family and Liverpool players attending funeral – Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Liverpool star’s loved ones and former teammates including Virgil Van Dijk, Andrew Robertson and Alexis MacAllister are attending the funeral for the footballer and his brother in Portugal.
Saturday 5 July 2025 09:52, UK
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 Among them were club captain Virgil Van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Alexis Mac Allister, Darwin Nunez and manager Arne Slot.
Some of Jota’s international teammates have also been spotted, including Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes, Manchester City’s Bernando Silva and Chelsea’s Joao Felix.
The funeral is for both Jota and his younger brother Andre Silva, who were killed in a car crash in Spain on Thursday. 
Other attendees outside of Jota and Andre Silva’s families have started to arrive now, and among them is Portugal’s head coach Roberto Martinez.
Jota was a staple in Martinez’s international squad, featuring most recently as a substitute in Portugal’s 2-2 draw with Spain in the Nations League last month.
There is no sign of the Liverpool players outside the church just yet, but as we have been reporting, many of Jota’s teammates from Anfield arrived in Portugal last night.
While guests begin arriving for the funeral in Portugal, fans are continuing to pay their respects to Jota outside Anfield Stadium.
The vigil was set up yesterday in memory of the forward, who joined the club in 2020.
Former captain Jordan Henderson, who is now in the Portuguese town of Gondomar for the funeral, visited the Liverpool vigil yesterday, where he placed a floral tribute.
Several Liverpool FC players have been seen in Portugal ahead of the funeral for Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva.
Club captain Virgil Van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Alexis Mac Allister and former teammates Jordan Henderson and James Milner are among those gathered in the small Portuguese town of Gondomar, as is manager Arne Slot.
They are expected to join the grieving family and hundreds of residents of Gondomar, a small town in northern Portugal where Jota grew up, for the funeral at the Igreja Matriz church from 10am.
Some players had been due back at the side’s training facilities to begin the preliminaries of pre-season testing yesterday, but the phased return from the summer holiday was postponed while those at the club come to terms with Jota’s death. 
Jota’s wife Rute Cardoso and other members of his family have arrived at the church where the brothers’ funeral is taking place this morning. 
The footballers’ funeral, which is set to start at 10am UK time, is expected to attract large crowds in the small Portuguese town of Gondomar, though the ceremony itself is private.
Several Liverpool players and manager Arne Slot are also set to attend.
Welcome to today’s live coverage following the death of Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, in a car crash in Spain.
A funeral for the pair is due to take place in their hometown of Gondomar, in northern Portugal, from 10am UK time.
First, let’s recap on what we know about the tragic accident in the early hours of Thursday and the key events since.
We will be resuming our updates tomorrow, when the funeral for Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva takes place. 
Here’s a recap of what’s happened today…
Family mourns alongside fans at wake <\/b>
Jota and Silva’s wake took place at a church in their hometown of Gondomar this afternoon. 
The wake was initially private and attended by the brothers’ families, including Jota’s wife Rute Cardoso, who he married less than two weeks before his death. 
Staff from Liverpool FC, and former teammates of both Jota and Silva, were also seen arriving. 
The doors of the chapel were later opened to members of the public, who queued around the square to say their final goodbyes. 
Funeral details announced <\/b>
The brothers’ funeral is scheduled for 9am tomorrow, Gondomar’s mayor’s office said.
Some Liverpool players and staff are expected to attend. 
More tributes pour in<\/b>
Liverpool forward Mo Salah and ex-Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho were among those who today shared moving tributes to Jota and Silva. 
At Anfield, former Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson was seen wiping away tears as he placed a floral tribute outside the stadium. 
By Tyrone Francis, sports producer in Gondomar<\/i><\/b>
A steady flow of hundreds, possibly a thousand, people queued patiently in over 30-degree heat to pay their respects at the Capela da Ressurreicao.
The small, unassuming white building, symbolic of this close-knit community, saw famous figures and members of the public alike say a final goodbye to Diogo Jota and his younger brother, Andre Silva.
Their wooden coffins were positioned a metre apart, side-by-side in the centre of a dimly-lit square room.
The hall had three walls lined with pews, full with people, reflecting on the lives of the two footballers, aged just 28 and 25.
Quiet sobs and the movement of single sheets of paper being used as fans to keep cool were the only noises audible in the room.
Emotions were sombre and visitors wiped the tears that trickled down their cheeks.
But the main emotion was one of disbelief that two skilful footballers – with their whole careers ahead of them \u2013 are gone way too early.
The caskets, surrounded by wreaths and draped in white roses, were the central focus of everyone’s attention.
No one cared who else was in the room, people cried, people reflected and people prayed with their heads bowed down.
Footballers Bernardo Silva, Fabinho and Thiago Alc\u00e2ntara were in the room at the time. 
But the most poignant image will be that of Diogo Jota’s wife, who sat on the floor in between the two coffins, a place she had been since arriving in the early hours of the morning.
The queues continued outside where two books of condolence had been set up for mourners to pen their tributes.
As bells at the neighbouring church, where tomorrow’s funeral service will be held, ring on the hour, every hour, this community remembers two talents, the humble guys who represented them on the grass pitch of the world’s biggest stage.
Jose Mourinho, who shared an agent with Jota, is the latest figure from the footballing world to pay tribute to the Liverpool star. 
Speaking to Sky Sports News, he said: “Nothing was easy for him, he had to fight to arrive where he arrived.
“He was not chasing protagonism, protagonism found him because of his talent.”
The Portuguese manager, who was speaking at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, added: “When people leave this world, normally we all say ‘such a nice guy’. Diogo was really a nice guy.”
A long line of mourners formed outside the Portuguese chapel where the wake took place.
Initially held in private for family, it later opened up to the public, with hundreds queuing around the 17th-century church.
Many people brought flowers and some wore Liverpool tops. 
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