Flying was forbidden! New findings on the Jota tragedy

The football world is in shock after the tragic death of Diogo Jota. Now ex-Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp speaks.好的,以下是提取出的正文内容,翻译成英语后的结果:

Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a tragic accident. More and more details about the circumstances are now emerging.

The entire football world is shocked and mourning. Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a car accident. Now, the first details are emerging about where the siblings were traveling and for what reason they undertook the car journey.

According to media reports, Jota was on his way back to Liverpool for the start of training on Monday and originally wanted to take the ferry from Spain to Great Britain. Traveling by plane was apparently out of the question for him for health reasons.

Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva have a fatal accident in a car accident

Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a car accident

According to the Portuguese sports newspaper A Bola and the British BBC, his doctors advised him against traveling by plane due to the pressure fluctuations when flying, after a minor lung operation. Therefore, the brothers probably took the car and the much longer land and sea route.

Was a tire burst the cause of the accident?

According to a report in the Spanish newspaper Diario de Castilla y León, the brothers were on their way to the small Spanish town of Benavente. There, they reportedly wanted to spend a night before continuing to Plymouth in England via the Spanish port city of Santander by ferry in the morning. From there, they were to go to Liverpool. The start of the Reds’ preparation is dated July 7th.

Shortly after the Portuguese-Spanish border, their vehicle is said to have left the road in the Spanish region of Zamora, broken through a guardrail and caught fire. Any help came too late for Jota and his brother. According to initial investigations by the Spanish police, one of the two rear tires burst during an overtaking maneuver and triggered the accident.

Scroll to Top