Diogo Jota crashed by car
Liverpool star dies at the age of 28
Updated on 03.07.2025 – 10:48 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Diogo Jota has played 182 games for FC Liverpool. Now the striker died in a car accident. He was only 28 years old.
Sad news: Liverpool’s striker Diogo Jota died in a car accident at the age of 28. This is reported by various media, such as the Spanish “Marca” and the Spanish news agency “EFE”. The Premier League club has not yet confirmed death.
According to “Efe”, the Portuguese’s 26-year-old brother is said to have died in the accident. Both were therefore in the crashed vehicle. According to the agency, the accident passed on Thursday morning on the A52 in Cernadilla (Zamora) in Spain. As the “Marca” reports, the Jota car is said to have strayed from the street and caught fire.
Diogo Jota only married on June 22nd. Wedding photos with his wife can be found on the player’s Instagram profile. In addition, not only the bride and groom beamed into the camera, but also the three children together posed happily with their parents a few days ago. Now the family has lost their father and husband and FC Liverpool has one of his top performers.
For the “Reds”, the offensive player has played 182 games so far since 2020 and scored 65 goals. With the former Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp, he won the English trophy and was twice a league champion winner. In 2022 and was also played in Diesediogo JOTA previously played at Wolverhampton, Atlético Madrid and FC Porto.