Brothers died at dawn on Thursday (3) in a car accident in Spain; Farewell funeral will be held on Saturday at 10am at the Mother Church of Gondomar
The bodies of the Portuguese brothers e who died in the early hours of Thursday (3) in a car accident in the they arrived last night to the city of Gondomar (near Porto), where the funeral and the funeral should be held, according to local press. Images released by Portuguese broadcaster “SIC Notícias” showed the remains of the two Portuguese players coming at the last minute of Thursday in two funeral cars, while they were applauded by dozens of people in the surroundings.
The station detailed that the bodies were sent to the resurrection chapel. The farewell funeral of the siblings will be held on Saturday at 10am (local time, 6am from Brasilia) at the Gondomar Mother Church, according to a city source to the “Lusa” news agency. Subsequently, the remains will be taken to the city cemetery.
This Friday, the wake is scheduled to take place in the chapel of the same church, from 16h (12h). Diogo Jota, 28, and his brother André, 25, died in the early hours of Thursday in a traffic accident on A52 road in Cernadilla (Zamora, Spain), a news that moved Portugal and the world of football.
The striker, graduated from Portuguese clubs Gondomar and Paços de Ferreira, was an Atletico Madrid player in 2016 and later acted in Porto until 2018, when he moved to Premier League. Since 2020 he was a Liverpool player. His brother André Felipe Silva was also a player and defended Penafiel, a team from the Portuguese second division.
*With information from EFE
