“Show us how fragile everything is”
DFB captain comments emotionally about Jota-Tod
Updated on 05.07.2025 – 05:16 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The death of Liverpool striker Jota shaked the football world. Before the quarter-finals against Paris Saint-Germain at the club World Cup, Bayern-Profi Kimmich is emotional in Atlanta Bayern.
According to DFB captain Joshua Kimmich, the death of Liverpool’s striker Diogo Jota also intensively employed FC Bayern football professionals before their quarter-finals at the club World Cup. Especially since in João Palhinha and Raphaël Guerreiro, two compatriots of the Portuguese international who died in an accident belong to the Munich squad.
“Sure, we talked about it. And of course you notice it,” said Kimmich in Atlanta the evening before the game against Champions League winner Paris Saint-Germain. “This is still more special if you had a personal relationship with a person who then has such an accident. Especially if you were a teammate of him, it won’t miss you without a trace,” said the 30-year-old Bayern professional.
The 28-year-old Jota died on Thursday with his younger brother André Silva in a car accident in Spain. “Of course it already shows us how fragile everything is,” said four-time family man Kimmich on Friday evening (local time) in front of reporters at the Mercedes-Benz stage. “We are talking about football here now, about the quarter -finals – and who will win. What of course we consider important – and what is a good thing.”
Nevertheless, you notice in such moments, “what is really important,” said Kimmich: “Of course there are accidents every day. But you still hit a little more when you knew the person. We still played against each other in the Nations League a few weeks ago,” the captain of the German national team recalled the 1-2 of the DFB selection in the semi-finals in Munich against the later Nation League winner.
It was Kimmich’s 100th international. And Jota had been substituted in the final phase in the Munich arena. Bayern held a minute of silence for Jota on Thursday before training at the World Cup base camp in Orlando. Even before the game against Paris kicks off, there will be a minute of commemoration today (6:00 p.m. CET).