Liverpool star Diogo Jota’s funeral will start at 3pm tomorrow, just a day after he and his brother were killed in a fiery road smash.
The wake will take place in São Cosme, a half-hour drive from his home city of Porto, northern Portugal – where just two weeks ago the 28-year-old married his childhood sweetheart Rute in a Catholic service packed with family and friends. It will be followed by the funeral at 10am on Saturday.
Local priest Jose Manuel Macedo said the wake will take place at Sao Cosme Chapel before the funeral mass on Saturday morning at the Catholic church next door – the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar.
He told CNN Portugal: ‘The bodies of the brothers will arrive at the resurrection chapel for the wake which will take place tomorrow and then the funeral will be at 10am on Saturday.
‘We’re available to celebrate [their life] with everyone and to share the pain and the Christian hope.’
This afternoon, hearses were spotted arriving at a funeral home in the Spanish town of Puebla de Sanabria, northwestern Spain, where their bodies were taken after the horror crash. It is understood they will be moved in the next couple of hours.
The tyre of the footballer’s acid green £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan is said to have blown out while overtaking another vehicle on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora – just ten miles over the border from Portugal.
Jota and his brother Andre, 26, were on a road trip to Santander to catch a ferry to Britain after he was advised not to fly following lung surgery, it was reported in his home country today.
