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Diogo Jota has tragically passed away at the age of 28 along with his brother Andre Silva after a car crash.

The horrible news was confirmed on Thursday morning after a car the pair were travelling in suffered a tyre blowout while overtaking.

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Jota will be forever rememberedCredit: AFP

It is an incident that has shocked Liverpool and football fans around the world.

Tributes have flooded in from current and former Liverpool players as well as Cristiano Ronaldo and others.

The name Jota will be written into history forever, and no one will ever forget him or his brother, who had a different surname to the Portuguese international.

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Jota wore various different names throughout his wonderful career

He was actually born Diogo Jose Teixeira da Silva but supposedly chose to go by 'Diogo J' as a youngster to differentiate himself from other Diogo's and Silva's in his youth academy.

Meanwhile, Andre kept the name Silva.

The name Jota is simply the Portuguese pronunciation of the letter J.

The language uses a hard J, which is slightly different from Spanish dialects who would instead pronounce such a name ‘Hota’.

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Jota's death has rocked the football worldCredit: GETTY

The attacker began his career with Portuguese outfit Pacos de Ferreira before he was signed by Atletico Madrid in 2016.

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He spent the 2016/17 campaign on loan at Porto under Nuno Espirito Santo before he followed his compatriot to Wolves the next season.

At the time, the west Midlanders were in the Championship and EFL regulations meant players had to go by their surnames on their shirts.

This meant Jota briefly went a term with Silva on his back before reverting to ‘Diogo J.’ upon Wolves' return to the Premier League in 2018.

He continued to wear that after joining Liverpool from Wolves up until his final match for the Reds.

Thousands of people have placed tributes to Jota and his brother as the football world mourns the loss of one of its own.

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