{"id":207880,"date":"2025-12-28T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T13:13:07","slug":"diogo-jotas-wife-thanks-liverpool-fans-for-the-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/207880\/","title":{"rendered":"Diogo Jota&#8217;s wife thanks Liverpool fans for the &#8216;love&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The widow of footballer Diogo Jota has thanked Liverpool fans for their &#8220;love&#8221; in &#8220;this incredibly difficult time&#8221; after he died in a car crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Rute Cardoso posted a message on Instagram after two of the couple&#8217;s three children <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9d97epel43o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">led tributes before Liverpool&#8217;s game against Wolves.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His sons Dinis and Duarte joined the matchday mascots on the Anfield pitch before the Premier League game on Saturday. Jota played for both clubs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Portugal forward, 28, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cr4we9z2l42o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was killed in a car crash in Spain in July<\/a>, alongside his 25-year-old brother Andre Silva.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His Lamborghini suffered a tyre blow-out, crashing and catching fire in Cernadilla in the Zamora province of Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">His widow said <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSyKc1QAoFp\/?igsh=OGpmbHZwejZhZHZ4\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in an Instagram message<\/a>: &#8220;From the bottom of my heart, thank you to the club and to all the fans for the love, respect and support shown during this incredibly difficult time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Your messages and gestures have meant more than words can express.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Jota&#8217;s sons led the Liverpool team out of the tunnel before Saturday&#8217;s Premier League game, and walked out ahead of captain Virgil van Dijk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A banner which read: &#8220;Diogo Jota, forever in our hearts&#8221; was held aloft in the Kop stand before kick-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Jota joined Wolves on an initial season-long loan deal from Atletico Madrid in 2017 and went on to score 44 goals in 131 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He scored 65 goals in 182 appearances for Liverpool, helping them win the FA Cup and EFL Cup in 2022 and the Premier League title last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Merseyside club retired Jota&#8217;s number 20 shirt following his death.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The widow of footballer Diogo Jota has thanked Liverpool fans for their &#8220;love&#8221; in &#8220;this incredibly difficult time&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}