Liverpool star Diogo Jota dies in car accident, aged 28, two weeks after his wedding day

Liverpool star Diogo Jota has died following a car crash in northern Spain at the age of 28 – and just two weeks since he married his childhood sweetheart.

The Portugal is believed to have been travelling in a car with his brother Andre, 26, who is also a footballer and feared dead.

Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world in an interview released yesterday.

The crashed occurred on the A-52 in the province of Zamora. The road in Spain is a key route taken by drivers leaving northern Portugal.

Emergency services in the Castilla and Leon region confirmed the crash.

‘The 1-1-2 Castilla y León operations room received several calls reporting a vehicle accident at Km. 65 of the A-52, in the municipality of Cernadilla, Zamora. A car was reported to have been involved in an accident and the vehicle was on fire,’ a statement read.

‘1-1-2 notified the Zamora Traffic Police, the Zamora Provincial Council Fire Brigade, and the Sacyl Emergency Coordination Center (CCU) of this accident.

Diego Jota had married his childhood sweetheart Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children, and described himself as the luckiest man in the world in an interview released yesterday. Here they are pictured on their wedding day

The couple have three children

‘From there, a Medical Emergency Unit (UME) and the Primary Care Medical Staff (MAP) from the Mombuey Health Center were sent, who confirmed the death of two people on the scene,

The tragic news comes just two weeks after Jota married his long-term girlfriend Rute Cardoso in Porto.