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For those of you just joining us, we received the desperate news this morning that Diogo Jota has passed away, along with his younger brother, Andre Silva.
The two were involved in a car accident in Zamora, Spain on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora in northwestern Spain.
The brothers were in a Lamborghini, which is believed to have had a tyre blown out while overtaking close to the border with Portugal.
The car then came off the road, rolled and burst into flames in the early hours of this morning, with emergency services unable to rescue the brothers.
Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world, sharing moving footage of their wedding day in his final Instagram post on Wednesday afternoon.
The couple married on June 22 in Porto, the footballer's home city. Rute shared more wedding day pictures in a social media post yesterday and said: 'My dream come true.' Jota replied in the comments: 'I'm the lucky one.'
