Diogo Jota could not fly after a problem with the lungs: everything we know about the accident in which the footballer and brother lost their lives. The funeral on Saturday

He had a problem with the lungs and for this the doctors had advised against flying. The choice to go by car to Santander It would be due to these circumstances for Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a road accident in the Spanish region of Zamora on the night between Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 July.

Sky Sport reports the words of the physiotherapist Miguel Gonçalves who spoke with the Portuguese sports newspaper Record: «Diogo would have stopped in Burgos to rest. He had not taken the plane to return to England for a problem with the lungs he suffered for a few months and for which he should have operated ». He had made a session for respiratory problems five hours before the accident. Gonçalves had seen both footballers around 20 and 30. They traveled at night to avoid the great heat.

In Santander Diogo Jota would have embarked on a ferry for the south of England And then he would continue towards Liverpool for the resumption of training next week. The Lamborghini Huracan on which he traveled, perhaps at a speed higher than the limit allowed in the stretch, left the road during a overtaking due to the outbreak of a tire and then caught fire.

Diogo Jota was 28 years old and was the father of three children. On June 22 he had married his life partner, known at school.

The corpses of the player and brother of two years younger, also a footballer, arrived at Gondomarthe locality of origin close to Porto, Portugal, where the funeral will take place tomorrow. The coffins were welcomed in the capela by Resurreiçao, chapel of the Resurrection, of the cathedral of Gondomar from dozens of fans. From 4pm the funeral vigil. At the vigil present the President of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and Prime Minister Luis Montenegro. The funeral are scheduled for Saturday 5 July.