{"id":23717,"date":"2025-07-26T14:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23717\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:03:11","slug":"diogo-jota-liverpool-plan-memorial-sculpture-at-anfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23717\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota: Liverpool plan memorial sculpture at Anfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool have announced plans for a permanent memorial sculpture at Anfield in tribute to Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva.<\/p>\n

A “Forever 20” emblem will also be printed on players’ shirts next season.<\/p>\n

Portugal and Liverpool forward Jota and Silva, who played for Portuguese second division club Penafiel, died in a car crash on 3 July<\/a> in the Spanish province of Zamora.<\/p>\n

Liverpool retired his number 20 shirt<\/a> in tribute.<\/p>\n

The planned sculpture will be made by recycling items left outside Anfield since his death by fans paying their respects.<\/p>\n

Liverpool are planning a fan mosaic and a minute’s silence at the opening Premier League home game against Bournemouth on 15 August.<\/p>\n

Fans can also pay tribute at the pre-season game against Atletico Bilbao on 4 August at Anfield, while players’ shirts will have a “‘Diogo J 20” patch for their two pre-season games in Asia.<\/p>\n

In addition, the club have said if supporters want to honour Jota by having “Diogo J 20” on the back of their shirts, then the profits of the purchases will go to the LFC Foundation, the club’s charity.<\/p>\n

The LFC Foundation has also committed to creating a grassroots football programme in the Jota’s name.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Football Association will hold talks<\/a> with Liverpool before planning a tribute to Jota at the Community Shield at Wembley on 10 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have announced plans for a permanent memorial sculpture at Anfield in tribute to Diogo Jota and his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-23717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}