Online Reporter
Liverpool have cancelled the phased return of players for pre-season training as they continue to mourn the death of forward Diogo Jota.
The first group of Arne Slot‘s squad were scheduled to attend the club’s AXA training complex on Friday for the opening round of physical tests after their summer break.
However, the PA news agency understands that has been postponed as the club deals with the aftermath of the shocking tragedy which saw 28-year-old Jota and his brother Andre Silva killed in a car crash in Spain in the early hours of Thursday.
Mourners gathered at a wake in Portugal yesterday morning, ahead of the brothers’ funeral at the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar in Sao Cosme at 10am today.
Portugal head coach Roberto Martinez said the country had lost “one of its heroes.”
“We feel the family’s pain and, in this tragedy, we question life in general,” he said in a video released by the Portuguese Football Federation.– BBC Sport
Peter Tanyanyiwa