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“It does not make sense,” wrote on his Instagram page (https://tinyurl.com/bdhvw5hk) the captain of the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo after the death of his teammate Diogo Jota (63 selections, 49 caps, 14 goals, 12 assists) and his brother André Silva this Thursday.
Aged 28 and 26 years of age respectively, Liverpool and Penafiel players (Portuguese D2) lost their lives in a tragic car accident in the Zamora region in Spain (see Footnews: https://tinyurl.com/3ydh6yzf).
“We were at the moment together as a national team, you had just got married. I express my condolences and wish all the strength of the world to your family, your wife and your children. I know that you will always be with them. Rest in peace, Diogo and André. We will miss all of you,” moved Ronaldo, who shared the field with JOTA 32 times.
Sometimes in competition, the two scorers notably won the Nations League twice together in 2019 (1-0 against the Netherlands in Porto) and 2025 (2-2 AP, 5-3 on penalties against Spain in Munich).
The same jersey, but also the same agent!
They also had the same agent Jorge Mendes for several years.
It was notably the latter who had convinced Wolverhampton (131 matches, 44 goals, 19 assists) to rent Diogo Jota at Atlético Madrid (where^he never played) in 2017, then buy it in 2018, before his explosion in the Premier League and his departure to Liverpool (182 matches, 65 goals, 26 assists) in 2020.
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