Diogo Jota‘s widow has posted a heartbreaking message on the one month anniversary of their wedding.
Rute Cardoso, who married the Liverpool star just 11 days before his tragic death, posted three pictures from their wedding, including a close up of the pair holding hands.
She captioned the post: ‘1 month of our ‘until death do us part’.
‘Forever. Your white girl’
Jota married childhood sweetheart Cardoso, who is the mother of his two sons Dinis, four, and Duarte, two, as well as his baby daughter Mafalda, who is just eight months old, in a ceremony in Porto in their native Portugal last month.
The footballer and his brother, Andre Silva, died when their car crashed in the early hours in northern Spain on July 3.
Liverpool later announced that Jota’s No 20 would be immediately retired for all levels following consultation with his widow and his family.
Since then, the club have extended the tribute to their official website.
In a section on the site listing the men’s first-team squad by position, a link to Jota’s profile has been immortalised under the subheading ‘forever’.
Jota’s profile now contains a tribute to the forward concluding with the statement: ‘He will always be our number 20.’
Speaking in his first interview since Jota’s death Reds boss Arne Slot insisted that retiring Jota’s number was the least the club could do.
‘We will always carry him with us in our hearts, in our thoughts, wherever we go,’ Slot told Liverpool’s website.
‘Maybe especially in difficult moments because of what I just said. But in any moment we are here, we will carry him with us in our thoughts and in our hearts.
‘To retire his shirt is the one thing we could, should and have done.’
A mural paying tribute to Jota has also recently been completed near Anfield.
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