Liverpool's Diogo Jota is dead

By Peter Dansu  Liverpool player, Diogo Jota is dead, report by Marca says. We’re absolutely devastated Liverpool says He  died following a ...

By Peter Dansu 

Liverpool player, Diogo Jota is dead, report by Marca says. We’re absolutely devastated Liverpool says

He died following a car crash in northern Spain at the age of 28 - and just two weeks since he married his childhood sweetheart.

The Portugal is believed to have been travelling in a car with his brother Andre, 26, who is also a footballer and feared dead.

Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world in an interview released yesterday.

Diogo Jota married his lover
Last week 

The crashed occurred on the A-52 in the province of Zamora. The road in Spain is a key route taken by drivers leaving northern Portugal.

Emergency services in the Castilla and Leon region confirmed the crash report by Mailonline confirmed 

According to sources, the 1-1-2 Castilla y León operations room received several calls reporting a vehicle accident at Km. 65 of the A-52, in the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora. A car was reported to have been involved in an accident and the vehicle was on fire,' a statement read.

'1-1-2 notified the Zamora Traffic Police, the Zamora Provincial Council Fire Brigade, and the Sacyl Emergency Coordination Center (CCU) of this accident.