{"id":125454,"date":"2025-07-18T23:19:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125454"},"modified":"2025-07-18T23:19:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T23:19:26","slug":"liverpool-soccer-star-diogo-jota-dies-in-car-crash-at-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=125454","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool soccer star Diogo Jota dies in car crash at 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w8xbpv4G4GY?rel=0&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Heartbreak in the soccer world after police say star soccer player Diogo Jota and his younger brother died in a car crash in Spain. His death comes just days after he married his longtime girlfriend, who he shares three children with. NBC News\u2019 Raf Sanchez reports on the emotional reaction from fans and fellow athletes.<\/p>\n<p>For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day, click here: https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Subscribe to NBC News: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/SubscribeToNBC<br \/>\n\u00bb Watch more NBC video: http:\/\/bit.ly\/MoreNBCNews<\/p>\n<p>NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties.  We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with NBC News Online!<br \/>\nNBC News App: https:\/\/apps.nbcnews.com\/mobile<br \/>\nBreaking News Alerts: https:\/\/link.nbcnews.com\/join\/5cj\/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621<br \/>\nVisit NBCNews.Com: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/ReadNBC<br \/>\nFind NBC News on Facebook: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/LikeNBC<br \/>\nFollow NBC News on Twitter: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/FollowNBC<br \/>\nFollow NBC News on Instagram: http:\/\/nbcnews.to\/InstaNBC<\/p>\n<p>#DiogoJota #Liverpool #Death<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w8xbpv4G4GY\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heartbreak in the soccer world after police say star soccer player Diogo Jota and his younger brother died in a car crash in Spain. His death comes just days after&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":125455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-how-to-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}