Mexico’s Raul Jimenez paid tribute to Diogo Jota within the Concacaf Gold Cup last on Sunday, breaking out his former teammate’s trademark celebration days after Jota and his brother Andre Silva died in a automotive accident.
Jimenez scored within the twenty seventh minute of Mexico’s conflict with the U.S. males’s nationwide workforce, bagging an equalizer after the opponents took the lead within the fourth minute. After celebrating along with his Mexico teammates, Jimenez sat on the grass along with his legs folded and broke out a jersey sporting Jota’s identify and quantity on the again, laying it out in entrance of him. The participant additionally pretended to play a online game, simply as Jota, an avid gamer, would after scoring a objective.
Jota and Jimenez had been teammates at Wolverhampton Wanderers from 2018 to 2019, throughout Jimenez’s lone season on the English membership and a 12 months earlier than Jota moved to Liverpool. Jimenez spoke about Jota forward of Sunday’s Gold Cup last, including himself to an inventory of people that spoke glowingly in regards to the Portugal worldwide.
“He was an important teammate,” Jimenez said on Saturday. “We shared many stunning moments being necessary components of what Wolves achieved in these instances. It’s totally powerful to be taught any such information about somebody so near you and who was an important buddy.”
Jimenez is considered one of a number of soccer gamers world wide to pay tribute to Jota utilizing his trademark celebration, an inventory that features Paris Saint-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele and Actual Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe after they scored in Membership World Cup motion on Saturday. Nashville SC’s Hany Mukhtar led his workforce in the same celebration on Saturday in MLS play, whereas Nigeria’s Rinsola Babajide, a former Liverpool participant, additionally paid tribute to Jota in her workforce’s win on the Girls’s Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday.
Jota, 28, and Silva, 25, died on Thursday in Spain following a automotive accident. Jota performed for Liverpool and Portugal’s nationwide workforce, amassing the Premier League title and the UEFA Nations League trophy within the last video games of his profession. The brothers’ funeral came about on Saturday of their hometown of Gondomar, Portugal.
