“We worked for Diogo Jota to get back and we spent the message at his wedding”

The president of Porto, André Villas-Boas, Effe said on Friday that they were working to the Liverpool striker Diogo Jota, Dead on Thursday in a traffic accident in Spain, he would return to the Portuguese Club in 2026 or 2027 and had a message in that sense through his agent at his wedding, which took place on June 22.

“We work with his agent, Jorge Mendes, for Diogo’s return directly to the Porto Football Club,” Villas-Boas pointed to the exit of the player’s burning chapel and his brother, also a footballer, André SilvaInstalled in the town where they grew up, gondomar, in the periphery of Porto, in northern Portugal.

“We talk about this possibility for th -26 (2026) or 27 (2027) –He added. I was sure to convey that message to Diogo Jota through Jorge Mendes at his wedding and it was a dream for all the ‘portists’ (As Porto fans are called to Portuguese) This has happened. “

There was an event that the player married on June 22 with his partner 13 years ago, Cardoso Rute, To whom she had three minor children, one of them was an eight -month -old girl.

Diogo Jota, 28, and his brother André, 25, died in the early hours of Thursday in a traffic accident at A52, in Cernadilla (Zamora, Spain).

The striker, formed at the Gondomar Campa clubs and Paços de Ferreira, was a player of the Atlético de Madrid in 2016 and subsequently played a loan in Porto until 2018, when he went to the English league. Since 2020 he has been a Liverpool footballer.

His brother André Felipe Silva was also a footballer and played in Penafiel, a team from the second division of Portuguese.

Its funeral was scheduled this Saturday at 10.00 local time (09.00 hours of GMT) at the Gondomar Parent Church and then buried in that population cemetery, located right next to the temple.

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