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Ruben Neves has shared an emotionally uncooked tribute to Diogo Jota following Saturday morning’s funeral in Gondomar, the place the pair’s deep friendship was plain to see.
The previous Wolves and Portugal teammate served as a pallbearer through the ceremony, strolling with Jota’s coffin alongside relations and shut pals.
Neves posted his message on Instagram the day earlier than the funeral, referring to Jota as “household” in a poetic farewell that has touched followers from Liverpool to Wolverhampton and throughout Portugal.
‘You’ll nonetheless be subsequent to me on the bus, on the airplane’
The Al Hilal midfielder, who performed with Jota for 3 years at Molineux and plenty of extra at worldwide degree, wrote: “Bug, wherever you might be I do know you’ll learn this…
Greater than a friendship, we’re household, and we received’t cease it simply because now you determined to signal a contract somewhat additional away from us!”
He added: “Once I go to the choice, you’ll nonetheless be subsequent to me on the dinner desk, on the bus, on the airplane… you’ll at all times be there with me as at all times.”
“From right this moment on, you’ll enter the sphere with me and we are going to observe our path collectively, on the stage the place we met.”
The message closed with a superbly private line, stuffed with affection and shared reminiscences: “Diogoal, you might be my favorite lemonade!! Amo-te 🤍”
Wolves, Portugal and Liverpool united in Jota grief
Neves’s tribute underlines the dimensions of the tragedy past Merseyside, with Jota’s dying resonating deeply amongst former golf equipment and teammates throughout the footballing world.
Jota joined Wolves from Atletico Madrid in 2017 and helped information them to Premier League promotion beneath Nuno Espirito Santo.
The transfer to Liverpool in 2020 solely added to his fame as some of the beloved and hardworking forwards in Europe.
Anfield teammates together with Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Conor Bradley and Caoimhin Kelleher all travelled to Portugal for the service, whereas Alisson despatched his personal transferring tribute, promising to assist Jota’s accomplice Rute: “You’ll by no means stroll alone.”
You may view Neves’s Jota tribute by way of his Instagram account:
