The ladies’s nationwide groups of each Portugal and Spain paid tribute to Diogo Jota by carrying black armbands throughout their Girls’s Euro 2025 recreation in Bern on Thursday.
Jota, the Liverpool and the Portugal males’s staff ahead, died tragically in a car accident alongside along with his brother, Andre Silva, within the province of Zamora in north-western Spain.
Among the many outpouring of emotional tributes from throughout the worldwide soccer neighborhood, a minute’s silence was noticed earlier than each Euro 2025 matches on Thursday and the identical will occur earlier than Friday’s fixtures.
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On an emotionally-charged night, many followers contained in the Wankdorf Stadium might be seen displaying photographs and messages in tribute to the brothers.
Each the Portuguese staff and Spanish staff wore black armbands in the course of the match after the request was permitted by UEFA a number of hours earlier than kick-off.
Spain, who lifted the World Cup two years in the past in Australia and New Zealand however have by no means received the Girls’s European Championship, are one of many favourites to go all the way in which this summer time.
Portugal, in the meantime, have by no means progressed past the group stage of a significant match however might be hoping to make historical past in Switzerland.
Portugal and Spain have been drawn in a bunch alongside Italy and Belgium.
