Liverpool and Wolverhampton, where Diogo Jota plays, will face each other for the first time since the car accident in July. While Liverpool Club has specially invited Jota’s family to the match at Anfield Road Stadium, the Portuguese football player’s two children, Dinis and Duarte, will take to the field with the players before the match.
Jota’s family was invited to the opening match of the season, which Liverpool played against Bournemouth in August, and after the moment of silence, choreographies saying “DJ 20” and “AS 30” were created in the stands. A banner reading “Rute, Dinis, Duarte, Mafalda. Anfield will always be your home” was unfurled in the world-famous Kop tribune.
The 28-year-old Portuguese football player died with his brother Andre Silva, who was also a football player, in a traffic accident in Zamora, Spain, in July.
Liverpool, which retired the number 20 jersey in memory of Jota, announced that a monument was planned to be erected at Anfield Road.