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Dave Smith, Fortune Intelligence

Two weeks before Diogo Jota died in a car crash, the 28-year-old Liverpool star finally married his longtime girlfriend and mother of his 3 children

Diogo Jota holds up a trophy (Credit: Maja Hitij / UEFA—Getty Images)
  • Liverpool FC star Diogo Jota died in a car crash on Thursday. He was 28. On June 22, Jota finally married Rute Cardoso, who he was with since the two were both 16 years old. Jota and Cardoso had three children together.

Football lost one of its brightest stars on Thursday. Diogo Jota, a forward for Liverpool FC, died in a car crash in Spain alongside his brother, André Silva. The accident involved Jota’s Lamborghini, and occurred in the province of Zamora, but it’s still unclear who was driving the car at the time. Diogo was 28; André, a footballer for Portugal’s Boavista FC, was 25.

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