{"id":443433,"date":"2026-05-11T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:33:10","slug":"diogo-jota-liverpool-release-images-of-memorial-to-late-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/443433\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota: Liverpool release images of memorial to late forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> have released images of a planned memorial to late forward Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, following their deaths last summer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jota, 28, and 25-year-old Andre Silva, who played for Portuguese second division club Penafiel, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr4we9z2l42o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">died in a car crash<\/a> on 3 July in the Spanish province of Zamora.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sculpture features a flowing heart design &#8211; a nod to the Portugal international&#8217;s goal celebration &#8211; the two brothers&#8217; shirt numbers, 20 and 30, plus the lyrics to Jota&#8217;s song, which is sung by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/liverpool\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> fans in the 20th minute at every game. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Titled &#8216;Forever 20&#8217;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpoolfc.com\/news\/lfc-releases-images-permanent-memorial-honour-diogo-jota-and-andre-silva\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the club says , external<\/a>it celebrates Jota and Andre Silva&#8217;s &#8220;lives, their bond, and the love and respect felt by family, team-mates and supporters across the world&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool have released images of a planned memorial to late forward Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-443433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443433","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=443433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}