Liverpool star Diogo Jota‘s funeral will start at 3pm on Friday, just a day after he and his brother were killed in a fiery road smash.
The wake will take place in São Cosme, a half-hour drive from his home city of Porto, northern Portugal – where just two weeks ago the 28-year-old married his childhood sweetheart Rute in a Catholic service packed with family and friends. It will be followed by the funeral at 10am on Saturday.
Local priest Jose Manuel Macedo said the wake will take place at Sao Cosme Chapel before the funeral mass on Saturday morning at the Catholic church next door – the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar.
He told CNN Portugal on Thursday: ‘The bodies of the brothers will arrive at the resurrection chapel for the wake which will take place tomorrow and then the funeral will be at 10am on Saturday.
‘We’re available to celebrate [their life] with everyone and to share the pain and the Christian hope.’
On Thursday afternoon, hearses were spotted arriving at a funeral home in the Spanish town of Puebla de Sanabria, northwestern Spain, where their bodies were taken after the horror crash. It is understood they will be moved in the next couple of hours.
The tyre of the footballer’s acid green £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan is said to have blown out while overtaking another vehicle on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora – just ten miles over the border from Portugal.
Jota and his brother Andre, 26, were on a road trip to Santander to catch a ferry to Britain after he was advised not to fly following lung surgery, it was reported in his home country on Thursday.
The acid green front of what appears to be the front of the Lamborghini Huracan lies at the side of the road where Diogo Jota and his brother died on Thursday. Their family and the world of football are mourning their tragic deaths near the town of Cernadilla, close to Zamora, Spain
Diogo Jota’s brother Andre, 26, was also a footballer and died in the crash. They were on a road trip through Spain to catch a ferry to the UK when they crashed, according to reports in Portugal
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Diogo Jota had married his childhood sweetheart Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, in the last fortnight. Here they are pictured on their wedding day
Local priest Jose Manuel Macedo said the wake will take place at Sao Cosme Chapel before the funeral mass on Saturday morning at the Catholic church next door – the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar (pictured)
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Hearses were spotted arriving at a funeral home in the Spanish town of Puebla de Sanabria, northwestern Spain
The bodies of the two brothers were taken to the funeral home after the horror crash
The supercar crashed and caught fire, also igniting the surrounding vegetation
Jota pictured (far right) with his wife Rute and younger brother Andre, who played in the Portuguese second tier
The remains of the Lamborghini that contained Diogo Jota and his brother Andre. Paramedics fought to save the men after the crash at around 12.35am on Thursday
An acid green piece of what is believed to be a panel from the Lamborghini lies at the side of the road where Diogo Jota and his brother died close to the Spanish city of Zamora
A drone view shows the site of the car accident where Diogo Jota died in a car crash
The couple have three children, pictured on the Anfield pitch in May after winning the Premier League
Diogo’s new wife 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.’
