Liverpool has canceled the phased return of players for training for the season while they continue to mourn for the death of Forward Diogo Jota.
The first group of the Arne Slot team was planned to attend the AXA training complex of the club on Friday for the opening round of physical tests after their summer vacation.
However, it is clear that it has been postponed when the club treats the aftermath of the shocking tragedy that saw 28-year-old Jota and his brother Andre Silva in a car accident in Spain in Spain in Spain in the early hours of Thursday.
Jota and his brother were on their way to take a ferry back to England, after being warned to fly, would be a risk to his health because of a recent operation. A Brittany Ferries service from the port city of Santander for Plymouth left on Thursday at 4 p.m. and arrived in Devon on Friday at 11.15 am.
On Thursday, his physio, breathing physiotherapist Miguel Goncalves, who had worked with Jota only five hours before the deadly crash, revealed the last hours of the tragic football player.
During the campaign, Jota suffered a little -known issue called a pneumothorax – or collapsed long -. He had bravely played because of his condition, making it worse by postponing the operation from May until after the victory of Portugal against Spain earlier this month.
Goncalves, who works in the São João hospital in Porto, said that he last saw Jota during dinner, around 8.30 pm, and was planning to drive at night because it was cooler. He strongly denied rumors that they had partyed and called his patient an 'unparalleled professional'.
In a tragic insight into the last days of the football player, the physio said that he was 'excited, confident in his recovery and enthusiastic' for the coming season.
“I said goodbye to him and his brother, Andre, around 8:30 PM his brother was a great companion and decided to go with him, to accompany him during the trip, and in this way they would spend more time together,” Goncalves Portuguese outlet recorded record.
“They would travel at night because it was cooler, but they didn't go immediately.
“He told me that the trip would take about eight hours, but that they would stop at a hotel in the Burgos area to rest. Diogo was very aware of his professionalism. They only had to arrive in Santander today, catch the boat and then go to England.
'The family would arrive by plane later, organize their lives at the weekend and then, on Monday, they had planned a medical appointment in Liverpool to assess the situation.
'I have read a number of things on the internet that are regrettable, and I even heard something in the media. To be clear: Diogo and Andre did not party at all, they were not in the so -called “good mood”, they had nothing that deserved some repair. Nothing.'
The supercar's band would have been blown out while catching up with another vehicle on the A -52 in Cernadilla near Zamora – only ten miles across the border from Portugal.
The police are investigating the cause of the deadly crash in the early hours of Thursday morning. Only two weeks ago, Diogo was married to his girlfriend in a Catholic service full of family and friends in his hometown of Porto.
Wreckage on the spot suggested that the brothers were driving to the UK in a Lamborghini Huracan Evo Spyder. In the region of £ 180,000 it costs before upgrades and has a top speed of more than 200 mph. It can go from 0-60 mph in 3.1 seconds.
Goncalves continued: 'I started working with him last Saturday and I was with him every day until this Wednesday. I said goodbye to him while eating.
“He made an extraordinary recovery, he was undoubtedly an unparalleled professional. He strictly followed what I told him, as you could see in the way he recovered.
'The basis of his right lung had collapsed a bit, but with physiotherapy after the operation he was practically impeccable. When I left him yesterday, he had no pain anymore and went back to Liverpool.
'He was excited, confident in his recovery and enthusiastic about the following season. He told me that he would not go on the pre-season tour that Liverpool is going to Japan to strengthen his recovery, he believed he would have a great season. '
On Friday morning, mourning people gathered during a wake in Portugal, prior to the funeral of the brothers in the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar in Sao Cosme at 10 am on Saturday.