Cristiano Ronaldo pays tribute to Diogo Jota after tragic car crash
The 28-year-old Liverpool and Portugal forward died alongside his younger brother, André, when their vehicle veered off a motorway and caught fire shortly after midnight in the municipality of Cernadilla, in the Zamora province of Spain.
Portuguese football icon Cristiano Ronaldo has paid tribute to his international team-mate Diogo Jota, who tragically died in a car accident on Thursday, saying: "We will all miss you."
The 28-year-old Liverpool and Portugal forward died alongside his younger brother, André, when their vehicle veered off a motorway and caught fire shortly after midnight in the municipality of Cernadilla, in the Zamora province of Spain.
"It makes no sense. We were just together with the national team (they won the Nations League title last month), you had just gotten married," Ronaldo wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
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"To your family, your wife, and your children, I send my condolences and wish them all the strength in the world. I know you will always be with them. Rest in peace, Diogo and André. We will all miss you."
Jota's death comes only a month after he and Ronaldo were pictured celebrating together on the pitch following Portugal's Nations League triumph, where they beat Spain in a dramatic penalty shoot-out.
