{"id":17090,"date":"2025-07-15T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liverpool-forward-diogo-jota-dies-in-car-crash-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T00:15:00","slug":"liverpool-forward-diogo-jota-dies-in-car-crash-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/liverpool-forward-diogo-jota-dies-in-car-crash-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool forward Diogo Jota dies in car crash | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S_Ch4nSAq4E?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has died in a car crash in Spain aged 28.<\/p>\n<p>The car left the road due to a tyre blow out while overtaking another car, local police said.<\/p>\n<p>His brother, Andre Silva, also died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Jota was a Portuguese international and a key part of the Liverpool side that won the Premier League last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese national team said Jota was &#8220;not only a fantastic player&#8221; but &#8220;an extraordinary person who was respected by all his teammates and opponents&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S_Ch4nSAq4E\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has died in a car crash in Spain aged 28. The car left the road due to a tyre blow out while overtaking another car, local police said. His brother, Andre Silva, also died in the crash. Jota was a Portuguese international and a key part of the Liverpool side that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17092,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions\/17092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}