Portugal and Spain gamers noticed a interval of silence earlier than their Ladies’s European Championship opening sport on Thursday in reminiscence of Portugal and Liverpool ahead Diogo Jota.
Each units of gamers additionally wore black armbands for the match. Gamers and supporters stayed silent for round 20 seconds earlier than the followers began applauding.
Jota and his brother André Silva have been killed in a automotive crash shortly after midnight in northwestern Spain when the Lamborghini they have been touring in veered off a street and burst into flames, Spanish police mentioned earlier.
Their deaths prompted an outpouring of grief from followers, gamers and officers throughout each girls’s and males’s soccer.
Some Portugal followers displayed banners in tribute to Jota earlier than their workforce’s Euro 2025 opener. “Thanks for every thing,” was written on one. “Relaxation in peace,” mentioned one other.
“At present, for them,” Portugal ahead Francisca (Kika) Nazareth had mentioned on Instagram some hours earlier than the match.
“One in every of our personal,” teammate and fellow ahead Jéssica Silva wrote, “Diogo wasn’t only a star. He was one of many good ones, the loyal ones, the attentive ones, the easy-going ones… a kind of who don’t want noise to make their mark. Thanks, Diego. Thanks, André. Soccer has turn out to be poorer… and so have we. You’ll by no means be forgotten.”
Reporting by The Related Press.
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