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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 in northern Spain.
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 last December.
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"Yes, forever," Jota wrote in the post, which shared pictures of the ceremony.
Jota had also posted 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, along with the caption: "My dream came true."
Jota and his younger brother André Silva, also a professional soccer player for the Portuguese side Penafiel, died shortly after midnight local time on July 3 when their Lamborghini left the road and caught fire in the municipality of Cernadilla in Zamora.
The car "left the road due to a tyre blowout while overtaking," Spanish police said in a statement.
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Liverpool 'Devastated' by Jota Death
As well as winning the UEFA Nations League with Portugal in June, Jota won the English Premier League title for the 2024/25 season with Liverpool, having won the FA Cup and League Cup with the club in previous years.
Liverpool FC was "devastated" by the death of its player, said the club in a statement.
"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," added the club.
"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, calling 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."
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