Professional soccer players Diogo Jota and brother Andre Silva die in road accident, July 2025

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Liverpool’s Diogo Jota and brother Andre Silva die in road accident

Local police in Spain confirmed the incident occurred at 00:30 local time on Thursday morning.

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Premier League footballer Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, a professional player for Portuguese side Penafiel, have died after being involved in a car accident in Spain.

Local police confirmed to The Athletic the incident occurred at 00:30 local time on Thursday morning on the A-52 — a 400km carriageway running from Madrid to the Spanish province of Galicia, north of Portugal — in the province of Zamora, in north west Spain.

The car, which was occupied by 28-year-old Jota and Silva, 25, went off the road and suffered an impact, causing the vehicle to catch fire, local authorities confirmed.

Jota was recently married to Rute Cardoso in his home city of Porto, in northern Portugal, around 300km to the west of Zamora. The couple have three children

 

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" (...) a boy from Portugal (...)".

Descansem em Paz, Diogo e André.