Diogo Jota phoned the president of the team where he grew up shortly before the accident. A confirmation of how well the striker was before the tragedy.
Diogo Jota was probably living the happiest period of his life , both professionally and personally. Successes with Liverpool and Portugal, marriage, and so much enthusiasm shared with loved ones. Those people who today are shocked by his death and that of his brother , in the tragic car accident. While the long funeral vigil for the last farewell to the two footballers has begun, new details emerge about what happened in the last hours before the crash.
Gondomar president remembers Diogo Jota
While we are trying to understand what happened on that cursed road in northwest Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning, and the causes of the accident , Jota’s hometown of Gondomar, 16 km east of Porto, has welcomed its two “sons”. It is here that their football careers began, which then took a much more fortunate path for Diogo.
Diogo Jota’s Last Call
The president of the local club, Gondomar SC, like many others, was devastated by the news and, just like Jürgen Klopp, cannot find peace. There was still constant contact between him and the Liverpool player , and in fact Álvaro Cerqueira revealed that he had spoken to Diogo Jota on the phone just before the terrible fatal accident. The owner of the team where the centre-forward played between the ages of nine and seventeen revealed this to the Jornal de Notícias: “ It was just after 10pm last night, we were on the phone and he was fine. We spoke almost every week and I knew he was going through a happy moment”.
An unforgettable phone call for Cerqueira, who hugged Jota every time he returned home. Nothing will be the same: “ When Diogo needed to train out of season, he asked to come here and we always made everything he needed available . His brother usually came too and they both worked. It’s difficult to talk at a time like this, but what will remain is the image of two very humble people, who leave an immense void”.
What remains? The memory of two special people: “It is difficult to speak at a time like this, but what will remain is the image of two very humble people, who leave an immense void. Club initiatives? I did not want to say too much about this issue, because it will not depend only on me”.
