Family members, close friends, and fans gathered in deep sorrow on Friday at a church in Gondomar to pay their final respects to Liverpool forward Diogo Jota and his younger brother, André Silva, following their tragic deaths in a car accident in Spain. The bodies of the Portuguese siblings were brought to the Capela da Ressurreição São Cosme, where a wake was held ahead of Saturday’s planned funeral service.

Outside the chapel, mourners embraced and shed tears before entering to bid farewell, while others left floral tributes and lit candles beside a tree that had become an impromptu memorial site. Among those present were the grieving parents of the players, as well as Jota’s high-profile agent, Jorge Mendes. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also visited the chapel to extend his condolences in person.

Jota, 28, and Silva, 25, were discovered deceased near Zamora in northwestern Spain after the Lamborghini they were travelling in veered off a remote stretch of highway shortly after midnight on Thursday, crashing and erupting into flames.