Club manager Arne Slot and Portugal manager Roberto Martinez were also in attendance, alongside a number of Jota’s teammates from Liverpool and the national side.
In Jota’s final match for Liverpool in May, he helped secure the club’s historic 20th English league title. One month ago, Jota had helped Portugal win the 2025 Nations League tournament.
Outside the church, hundreds gathered to pay their respects, laying flowers and holding one another in grief. At the same time, one thousand miles away at Liverpool’s stadium, Anfield, fans gathered by a sea of scarves, flowers, balloons, and handwritten notes outside that formed a shrine for Jota and his brother.
Ahead of the funeral, tributes to the two brothers poured in from around the world.
At Chelsea’s Club World Cup match against Palmeiras on Friday night, Portugal teammate Pedro Neto walked onto the pitch holding a Chelsea shirt bearing the names Diogo and André.
Neto, visibly emotional, fought back tears as the crowd fell silent inside Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.
That same evening, legendary rock band Oasis paid a moving tribute during the opening night of their reunion tour in Cardiff, Wales. As they played the iconic outro to 1994 song “Live Forever,” a giant image of Jota’s No. 20 Liverpool shirt appeared on screen, sparking a wave of applause from the 75,000-strong crowd.
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