Diogo Jota's widow reveals heartbreaking last text before Liverpool star's fatal crash
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Rute Cardoso has opened up on Diogo Jota's tragic death in a new book which features contributions from Arne Slot, Jurgen Klopp and other well-known football figuresTragic Diogo Jota’s widow is set to reveal she messaged the former Liverpool and Wolves star - unaware that he had crashed - asking him to send her their wedding video when he got a chance to pull over.Rute Cardoso will reportedly make the tear-jerking admission in a book, which will be out next week, about her last words to her father-of-three new husband before she found out about his horror accident in his £180,000 Lamborghini Huracan when he died alongside older brother Andre Silva.And she will also insist the 28-year-old, killed in an early-hours Spanish motorway crash in the rented sports car on July 3 last year as he drove towards Santander to catch a ferry to the UK, was never the sort of player obsessed with flash motors and expensive watches.Childhood sweethearts Diogo and Rute had tied the knot at a church in Porto on June 22 last year, 13 years after they started dating and just 11 days before the crash on the A-52 in Cernadilla near Zamora close to Spain’s north-west border with Portugal. The official biography, out on April 9 in Portugal and written by former footballer Jose Manuel Delgado, is called ‘Nunca Mais e Muito Tempo’ - which in English translates as ’Never Again Is a Long Time.’READ MORE: Ex-Liverpool star Thiago Alcantara breaks down in tears during Diogo Jota tributeREAD MORE: Diogo Jota's widow in touching Liverpool tribute ahead of difficult new milestoneSpeaking about the biography on Portuguese TV, presenter Isabel Figueira said: “What shook me the most when reading an excerpt from the book is the way Rute narrates the last messages she sends him, which Diogo never receives.
She says she had just received the wedding video and she says ‘Love, when you stop, call me, because I have something here to show you,’ and it was this video.”Rute, who has now moved back to Gondomar near Porto in Portugal with the couple’s children, is also understood to have told Jose Manuel how she started calling the hotel near the crash scene where Diogo was due to stay that night when she became worried at his failure to respond, then hospitals, police and finally a lorry driver relative with good Spanish traffic cop contacts.In another excerpt from the book highlighted by Portuguese magazine Flash, she says: “Unlike most players, who like flashy cars, jewellery and watches, Diogo was never into that scene.“The vehicles we had were enough for him. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners.
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