Thousands of football fans have made their way to Anfield stadium to pay their respects to the Liverpool forward Diogo Jota after his death in a car crash in Spain.Jota, 28, was killed when a Lamborghini he was travelling in with his younger brother,

The Liverpool star's loved ones and former teammates including Virgil Van Dijk, Andrew Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister are attending the funeral for the footballer and his brother in Portugal.

As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.