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Diogo Jota’s Final Social Media Post Before Tragic Car Crash Leaves Fans in Tears — Joyful Wedding Memories Now Haunting Reminder of What Was Lost

Diogo Jota’s Final Social Media Post Before Tragic Car Crash Leaves Fans in Tears — Joyful Wedding Memories Now Haunting Reminder of What Was Lost 

The final post on Diogo Jota’s account on the X social media platform showed his wedding day joy just two weeks before his sudden death in a car crash.

Jota, a professional soccer star who played for Liverpool FC and Portugal, married his longtime partner Rute Cardoso on June 22.

The pair had three young children together, the youngest of whom was born in December 2024.

“Yes, forever,” Jota wrote in the post, along with pictures from the ceremony.

Jota had also shared a video of the day on his Instagram account, writing only a few hours before his death: “A day we will never forget.”

Cardoso had posted to Instagram an image of her wearing her wedding dress. She had captioned it: “My dream came true.”

Jota and his younger brother André Silva, also a professional soccer player for the Portuguese side Penafiel, died on July 3 when their car left the road in Zamora, Spain, and caught fire.

Diogo Jota Rute Cardoso wedding day
Diogo Jota and his wife Rute Cardoso on their wedding day June 22, 2025. Jota shared the picture in his last social media post before his tragic death in a car crash on July 3, 2025.  Diogo Jota

With Liverpool, Jota had won the English Premier League title for the 2024/25 season, and then the UEFA Nations League with Portugal in June.

Jota had also won the FA Cup and League Cup with Liverpool in previous years.

Liverpool FC said the club was “devastated” by the death of its player in a statement.

The club continued: “Liverpool FC will be making no further comment at this time and request the privacy of Diogo and Andre’s family, friends, teammates and club staff is respected as they try to come to terms with an unimaginable loss.

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“We will continue to provide them with our full support.”

Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro paid tribute to Jota and Silva in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Montenegro said Jota “greatly honored Portugal’s name” as an athlete, and called the deaths of the two soccer players “unexpected and tragic.”

“I extend my deepest condolences to their family. It is a sad day for football and for national and international sports,” Montenegro said.

Pedro Proença, president of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), said everyone at his organization and “all of Portuguese football are completely devastated” by the deaths of the two players.

Proença called Jota “an extraordinary person, respected by all teammates and opponents, someone with contagious joy,” and expressed his “deepest condolences to the family and friends of Diogo and André Jota, as well as to Liverpool FC and FC Penafiel.”