Misfortune struck Diogo Jota: he was traveling by car because doctors advised him not to travel by plane.

Nothing went as planned for Diogo Jota, who suffered misfortune: the Portuguese forward was scheduled to be in Liverpool to begin preseason training with the Reds , but couldn't fly to England after recently undergoing surgery, so he opted to travel by car to Santander to catch a ferry to the British country. However, he never reached his destination, as he and his brother lost their lives this Thursday in a tragic traffic accident.

The footballer had recently undergone minor surgery and doctors had advised him not to fly, so he drove from England to Porto 11 days ago , according to the BBC , to get married with Rute Cardoso, his longtime girlfriend with whom he had three children. He had been planning to return to the British Isles for a trip.

The Portuguese player was scheduled to join the rest of his teammates on Monday to report to Arne Slot and begin preparing for next season with Liverpool. According to the same source, Jota was on his way to Santander to catch a boat when the accident occurred, which claimed his life and that of his brother André, a Peñafiel player.

Both, aged 28 and 26 respectively, died in the early hours of Wednesday to Thursday in a traffic accident on the A-52 highway, near the Zamora municipality of Cernadilla, when the Lamborghini they were travelling in went off the Rías Bajas motorway and caught fire .

The brothers' remains were transferred to Portugal on July 3rd following the completion of the autopsy at the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences in Zamora, around 2:00 p.m., when two hearses left the forensic anatomy center with the bodies of the deceased.