{"id":69592,"date":"2025-07-03T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69592"},"modified":"2025-07-03T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T14:39:01","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-mourns-teammate-diogo-jota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/cristiano-ronaldo-mourns-teammate-diogo-jota\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo Mourns Teammate Diogo Jota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portugal national team captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic death of his teammate, Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Jota, a 28-year-old forward for Liverpool, and his 26-year-old brother, Andre Silva, also a footballer, lost their lives in the crash that occurred on the A-52 highway in the Zamora province.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo and Jota had recently featured together for Portugal, helping the team clinch the UEFA Nations League title for a second time after a dramatic 5-3 penalty shootout victory over Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Jota had come off the bench in the second half of extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the news, Ronaldo shared an emotional tribute via his X (formerly Twitter) handle, writing: &#8220;It doesn\u2019t make sense. We were only just in the national team together. You had only just got married. To your family, your wife, and your children, I send my condolences and wish them all the strength in the world. I know you\u2019ll always be with them. Rest in peace, Diogo and Andre. We\u2019ll all miss you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The football world has been plunged into mourning, with tributes pouring in from across clubs and countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Portugal national team captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, has expressed deep sorrow over the tragic death of his teammate, Diogo Jota, who died in a car accident in Spain. Jota, a 28-year-old forward for Liverpool, and his 26-year-old brother, Andre Silva, also a footballer, lost their lives in the crash that occurred on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69594,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69592\/revisions\/69594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}