As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.

Liverpool and Portugal forward Diogo Jota, 28, has died in a car crash in Spain, the English club and the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) said on Thursday. "The Portuguese Football Federation and the entire Portuguese football are completely devastated by the death of Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva in Spain,

When joining Liverpool, Jota made it clear he was hungry to compete in the Champions League once again. So it was only fitting that one of the highlights of his first campaign at Anfield came in the competition as he scored a hat-trick in an astonishing 5-0 victory away at Atalanta.