Mourners continue to flood to Anfield to pay their respects to Diogo Jota. The Liverpool forward tragically passed away on Thursday following a car crash in northern Spain that also claimed the life of his brother,

Born in Porto and raised in Gondomar, Jota was not just a footballer from the area, he was one of them. His path to the top, which started on a degraded astroturf pitch behind the main stand at SC Gondomar, is etched into the memory of a community that never stopped claiming him as their own.

Flowers and messages of tribute to footballer Diogo Jota continue to be laid at Anfield stadium today after if was announced that the Liverpool FC player had died in a car accident. The LFC forward, 28, is said to have been travelling with his brother, Andre Silva, in the Zamora region of Sanabria, Spain when the tragedy occurred.