Mexico’s Raul Jimenez paid tribute to Diogo Jota within the Concacaf Gold Cup ultimate 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 group, bagging an equalizer after the opponents took the lead within the fourth minute. After celebrating together with his Mexico teammates, Jimenez sat on the grass together with his legs folded and broke out a jersey sporting Jota’s title 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 aim.
Jota and Jimenez had been teammates at Wolverhampton Wanderers from 2018 to 2019, throughout Jimenez’s lone season on the English membership and a yr earlier than Jota moved to Liverpool. Jimenez spoke about Jota forward of Sunday’s Gold Cup ultimate, including himself to an inventory of people that spoke glowingly concerning the Portugal worldwide.
“He was an excellent teammate,” Jimenez mentioned on Saturday. “We shared many stunning moments being essential components of what Wolves achieved in these instances. It is very powerful to be taught any such information about somebody so near you and who was an excellent pal.”
Jimenez is certainly one of a number of soccer gamers all over the world 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 group 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 group’s win on the Ladies’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 group, gathering the Premier League title and the UEFA Nations League trophy within the ultimate video games of his profession. The brothers’ funeral befell on Saturday of their hometown of Gondomar, Portugal.
