From residents of Gondomar, where the footballer grew up, to the president a country has been engulfed by sorrow
Ana Oliveira can barely get through a sentence before breaking down in tears. She has lived most of her life across the street from Diogo Jota?s family home in Gondomar, a small city on the outskirts of Porto in northern Portugal. The sorrow that has engulfed the nation since the Liverpool forward?s death is felt particularly acutely there.
Ana can still picture Diogo clearly as a boy, dropping his backpack after school and spending hours kicking a ball against the wall of his house. His younger brother, Andr? Silva ? who perished in the same car crash in northern Spain on Thursday ? quickly followed in his footsteps, sharing his love for the game. The brothers would often invite Ana?s brother, ?ngelo, for a quick match in the street before dinner.
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