Diogo Jota\u2019s sons will be among the mascots when Liverpool play Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League at Anfield on Saturday.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the first meeting between the Portugal international\u2019s former clubs since he died in a car crash, along with his brother Andre Silva, in the Spanish province of Zamora in early July.<\/p>\n
Wolves players, staff, head coach Rob Edwards and interim executive chairman Nathan Shi also visited Anfield on Friday night to place flowers among the tributes outside the ground.<\/p>\n
Dinis and Duarte, two of Jota\u2019s three children with wife Rute Cardoso, will be on the pitch with the players prior to the game. It promises to be an emotional occasion with Jota\u2019s family invited by Liverpool as special guests.<\/p>\n
They previously attended the opening league match of the season against Bournemouth in August when mosaics across two stands displayed \u2018DJ 20\u2019 and \u2018AS 30\u2019 during a minute\u2019s silence. A banner on the Kop declared: \u2018Rute, Dinis, Duarte, Mafalda \u2014 Anfield will always be your home.\u2019<\/p>\n
Mafalda is Jota\u2019s daughter who was born last year.<\/p>\n
Liverpool responded to the tragedy in July by retiring the No 20 shirt in Jota\u2019s memory. They also unveiled plans for a memorial sculpture at Anfield as the focal point for a permanent tribute to the 28-year-old forward, who scored 65 goals in 182 games for the club.<\/p>\n
The sense of loss was also profoundly felt at Wolves, where he spent three years before joining Liverpool in a \u00a345million transfer in 2020.<\/p>\n
Wolves inducted him into their Hall of Fame and prior to their first game of the season they unveiled a stunning tifo image of Jota which read: \u2018We\u2019ll remember you when you walk in fields of gold.\u2019 It was a reference to Sting\u2019s Fields of Gold, Jota\u2019s favourite song.<\/p>\n
We visited Anfield this evening to remember Diogo \ud83d\udc9b pic.twitter.com\/hr4Z8UXMkp<\/a><\/p>\n