Spanish police suspect Diogo Jota was driving over the velocity restrict when he and his brother have been killed in a automobile crash final week.
The 28-year-old Liverpool and Portugal ahead died along with his 25-year-old brother André Silva when the Lamborghini by which they have been travelling careered off a street within the province of Zamora final Thursday.
Spain's Civil Guard mentioned on Tuesday that whereas its investigation into the accident was not full, it believed the automobile was being pushed at greater than the 120km/h (75mph) velocity restrict when it had a suspected tyre blowout.
For the primary time because the crash, which occurred 11 days after Jota married his long-term accomplice Rute Cardoso, the police additionally mentioned they believed the Liverpool participant was driving the automobile.
A spokesperson for the Civil Guard mentioned: “The knowledgeable report is being carried out and completed, the place amongst different issues they're finding out the marks left by one of many wheels of the automobile. The whole lot additionally factors to a attainable excessive extra of velocity over the permitted velocity of the street. All of the assessments carried out for the second level to the truth that the driving force of the automobile was Diogo Jota.”
The report will probably be handed to the court docket in Puebla de Sanabria, Zamora, when the investigation is accomplished.
Jota and Silva died when the automobile left the A52 in north-west Spain and burst into flames. They're believed to have been heading to the northern Spanish port of Santander to take a ferry to England earlier than Jota's return to Liverpool for pre-season coaching, having been suggested to not fly after Jota had a current lung process. The brothers have been buried of their dwelling metropolis of Gondomar close to Porto on Saturday.
Jota's Liverpool teammates, most of whom attended the funeral, started reporting again for pre-season coaching on Tuesday. Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson, who posted emotional tributes to their buddy, have been among the many contingent who arrived on the Axa Coaching Centre for pre-season assessments together with the brand new signing Jeremie Frimpong. Tributes to Jota have been left close to the gamers' entrance to the coaching floor.
Liverpool delayed the beginning of pre-season after Jota's demise and the total squad is just not anticipated again till Thursday. The Premier League champions are scheduled to play their first pleasant at Preston on Sunday.
