Portuguese Player Funeral: Details & Location

A fiery chapel could be held this Friday in Gondomar, a locality where Diogo Jota had started football in his childhood.

The funeral of the Portuguese international striker of Liverpool Diogo Jota and his brother should take place on Saturday in Gondomar, in the suburbs of Porto (North), at 10:00 am local (9:00 am GMT), the Lusa agency reported on Thursday by citing a source from the local town hall.

It was with the club of this locality, the Gondomar Sport Clube founded in 1921, that the Reds striker had made his debut in football. A fiery chapel could stick to it on Friday evening in an adjacent chapel of the church of Gondomar, but the schedule was not yet known at this stage, because the bodies of the two men were then still in Spain, said Lusa.

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Aged 28 years respectively for the Portuguese international and 25 years for his younger brother André, also a professional footballer in the Portuguese second division in Penafiel, the two men died in a car accident on a highway in the province of Zamora, in the northwest of Spain, at the level of the commune of Cernadilla on the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

According to the Civil Guard, the vehicle made a “road trip” before caught fire. Father of three children, Diogo Jota announced a few days ago to married June 22, by publishing photos of the ceremony on the social network X. His sudden death aroused the stir of many personalities from the world of football.

Aiko Tanaka

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