Diogo Jota: Reporting from Portugal as football world mourns Liverpool star

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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#LFC #LiverpoolFC #LiverpoolFootballClub Download SAILY in your app store and use our code bloodred at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. For further details go to https://saily.com/bloodred Liverpool and the football world are continuing to pay tribute to Diogo Jota after the forward's death in a car crash. A makeshift shrine has sprung up at Anfield, with thousands of tributes left by fans. A wake for Diogo and his brother Andre was held at Sao Cosme Chapel in the town of Gondomar near Porto over the weekend. Jota played for Gondomar as a teenager and its academy was named after him in 2022. The ECHO's Ryan Paton, who was in Portugal, joins the Blood Red podcast and host, Joe Rimmer for a special tribute show to Liverpool’s forward. *#BeMoreDan: Fascinating Tales From Liverpool’s Incredible History* https://reachsportshop.com/book/lfc-stories/ Download SAILY in your app store and use our code bloodred at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase. For further details go to https://saily.com/bloodred Get exclusive Liverpool FC podcasts and video content everyday right here. Subscribe to the Blood Red Liverpool FC YouTube Channel and watch daily live shows HERE: https://bit.ly/3OkL9iT Listen and subscribe to the Blood Red Podcast for all your latest Liverpool FC content via Apple and Spotify: APPLE: https://bit.ly/3HfBvKq SPOTIFY: https://bit.ly/3SdsjeH Join our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Visit the Liverpool ECHO website: https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fc Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LivEchoLFC Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LiverpoolEchoLFC Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloodred_lfc Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bloodred_lfc Subscribe to us on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/bloodredliverpoolfc Download our Liverpool FC app for free: Apple - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/lfc-echo/id1255495425Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mirror.liverpoolfc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, giving you the inside track on all the big talking points from Anfield.
0:09.9	Hello there, and welcome to the latest Blood Red podcast from the Liverpool Echo, and your host, Joe Rimmer.
0:14.0	Jo Rimmer, joined today by Echo reporter Ryan Patton.
0:16.8	It's the first time we've done a podcast since Thursday in which we reacted to the tragic news that Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva,
0:24.6	had been killed in a car crash in Spain.
0:29.6	First of all, those who watched on Thursday will know that we just dispense with any housekeeping at the start.
0:35.9	So we'll do that again today.
0:39.0	I don't think it's the time or the place.
0:41.4	So we'll just try and get straight into it.
0:45.5	Ryan was over in Portugal for the Echo,
0:52.4	reporting from Gondamar, which is Diogo Jotta's hometown and Andri Silver's hometown.
0:57.7	And first of all, I thought it was important, Ryan, for us to talk about why you were there,
1:01.8	why it was important for the Echo to go out there and cover his funeral.
1:04.7	Yeah, so obviously like everyone, last week when the news broke,
1:08.2	it was just, it was truly heartbreaking, just absolutely tragic and just, you know,
1:13.0	trying to process it and come to terms with an incomprehensible tragedy.
1:17.6	But I thought it was quite important for us to, you know, pay tribute to Jotter's legacy.
1:22.4	Obviously, we knew why he mattered so much to Liverpool and in the Liverpool community.
1:29.1	So, but it was more to find out about about his roots in Gondomar and sort of to pay tribute to them and sort of to find out about why he became the person that he did and why he mattered so much to the
1:33.4	community let's start then with gondamar itself um for those who don't know where is gondam
1:38.7	what is it like um obviously it's where jotha grew up and he has quite a unique story doesn't he
1:43.9	in terms of Portuguese footballers
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