Mexico -striker Raul Jimenez brought an emotional tribute to the former teammate Diogo Jota after scoring in the Gold Cup of his country on Sunday evening about the USMNT.
Jota, who helped Liverpool to win the Premier League title last season, and his younger brother Andre Silva was killed tragically in a car accident close to the Portuguese border in the northwest of Spain asked on Thursday morning.
The couple traveled in Diogo’s Lamborghini when one of the tires blew out and sent the supercar off the road before it burst into flames. The emergency services were called, but the brothers could not be saved.
Huldesten have collapsed for Jota and his brother for the past four days, with various players who are devoting goals to the couple since their fatal accident.
And after he arrived at the score sheet in the Concacaf Gold Cup final, Jimenez made sure to devote the goal to his friend and former teammate.
The Premier League star, who played next to Jota for two years at Wolves before the last move to Liverpool in 2020, marked his equal strike by sitting on the grass and recreating Diogo’s characteristic gaming celebration next to a special no. 20 Jersey with his name.
Mexico -striker Raul Jimenez brought an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota in the Gold Cup final
Jota, who helped Liverpool to win the Premier League title last season, and his younger brother Andre Silva was tragically killed in a car on Thursday
Jimenez played with Jota at Wolves for two years before the latter moved to Liverpool to Liverpool in 2020
The Premier League star devoted his goal against the USMNT to his friend and former teammate by recreating his characteristic gaming celebration
Jota withdrew that celebration memorably after a dramatic winner of 94 minutes before Liverpool against Tottenham in 2023.
Jimenez pulled Mexico level in the 27th minute on Sunday evening after Chris Richards fired the USMNT after just four minutes.
In the end, Edson Alvarez proved the hero for El Tri at NRG Stadium in Texas when he appeared with the game-winning goal 13 minutes than time.
The football world was destroyed by the loss of Jota and his younger brother, with a tribute that came in since the heartbreaking news came to light on Thursday.
Colleague Portugal International Pedro Neto showed a tribute to Diogo and Andre for the 2-1 victory of Chelsea over Palmeiras at the Club World Cup this week, while other international colleagues Joao Annulso and Ruben Neves with Tear Wellden for the 2-1 defeat of Al-Hilal by Fluminse.
Nashville SC midfielder Hany Mukhtar also paid his respect by taking off the gaming celebration after his dramatic 101st-minute winner against Philadelphia Union on Saturday evening.
Jota was just married to Rute Cardoso, the 28-year-old mother of his three children and partner since the age of 16, fourteen days before his tragic death.
The Premier League winner had described herself as the happiest man in the world to be her husband, in which he was shared moving images of their wedding day in his last Instagram post on Wednesday afternoon.
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