{"id":211889,"date":"2025-12-26T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211889\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T13:24:09","slug":"jotas-sons-to-join-mascots-when-liverpool-face-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/211889\/","title":{"rendered":"Jota&#8217;s sons to join mascots when Liverpool face Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diogo Jota&#8217;s two sons will join the \u2060mascots at Anfield when Liverpool face Wolves in the Premier League on Saturday, the club confirmed \u200don Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Portuguese forward Jota, who played for both Premier League clubs, died in a car crash alongside his younger brother in July in northwestern Spain. He was 28.<\/p>\n<p>Jota joined Wolves on loan from Atletico Madrid in 2017 and made a permanent move to the club \u2060the following year. He then signed a five-year deal in \u20602020 with Liverpool, where he won the league title earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s \u2060match \u200dmarks \u2060the first time Liverpool and Wolves have met since Jota&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Jota&#8217;s \u200dwife Rute Cardoso and her two \u2060sons, Dinis and Duarte, were present for the Premier League home openers for both Liverpool and Wolves in August.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool also permanently retired \u200dhis jersey number 20 following his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota&#8217;s two sons will join the \u2060mascots at Anfield when Liverpool face Wolves in the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-211889","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}