Post long article introduces the Jota family: Everything is flawless, but life is always so fragile

July 4th, July yesterday, 28-year-old Liverpool striker Diogo Jota died in a traffic accident. He just held a wedding with his wife last month. The British media Mail wrote a long article introducing Jota's family and mourning his death.

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They first met in the middle school library, and they have always maintained a humble attitude in the past 13 years together. He doesn't like to show off, and she hopes to one day complete the marketing degree she once dreamed of.

They are so low-key, the lives of Diogo Jota and Lute Cardozo are presented through Ins, looking flawless, without a trace of clouds in the sky. Their flawless world—a Catholic wedding on the banks of the Douro, a perfect June afternoon ten days ago—a contrast with the twisted wreck of Lamborghini at the site of Jota and his 26-year-old brother, is one of the most heartbreaking aspects of the incident that took place in the early hours of Thursday. This is a cruel reminder that any life is so fragile and short.

When Ms. Cardozo began posting photos of her and Jota, there was no careful arrangement. At that time, they were not famous, they were still teenagers, and those photos were slightly blurry, and Jota sometimes forgot to look at the camera, reflecting the ordinary life they loved. A local newspaper published photos of him from his movement, which made her very happy. "How cute!" she commented.

, of course, it was his celebrity effect that put them in the spotlight: a pair of award-winning photographers Felipe and Katia Gonsalves, who filmed them that heartbreaking short video about their wedding last Sunday.

Background audio was specially created for the couple, reminding them that this is a "will engrave the rest of your life". This is the only time they have been with all the people who are most important to them “at the same time, in the same place.” In the video, the best men are wearing cheesy turquoise suits and the groom looks a little restrained, reminding us that there is always more glamorous than the surface between Jota and the young woman who spent his time with him.

In 2012, when Jota met his future wife at the Gondomar High School, famous for the goldsmiths industry in eastern Porto, he was full of confidence and popularity, and she was a newcomer who had just moved from Jovim, a few miles west of the Douro River.

They were eventually assigned to the same class, and she still remembered his rather careless attitude when he studied - in her words a few years later: "On the one hand, he was indifferent on the other. He always achieved good results, but he didn't study hard." At that time, he was making his mark in football.

However, there is always a feeling that as the driving force for Jota's progress, she is more confident than him - she has been encouraging him after he transferred from Porto local team to Atletico Madrid. They were 19 years old and began to live together. "Diogo also has this dream, but we have to do it step by step. He was not blinded, he was still the same as him," she said.

She knew that Jota was initially rejected by both Benfica and Porto, which shattered the confidence he had built at the Gondomar Club - he scored 38 goals in a season, and would spend countless hours practicing new skills on the terrace of his parents' home, breaking many flower pots. He was inspired by the careers of his father and grandfather, both former amateur footballers.

She applied for a marketing degree from the University of Milan de la Milan de la in northeastern Portugal and hoped to transfer the offer to a school closer to their location, but she said: "This is on hold for the time being, depending on Diogo's career development."

They did not expect things to go so well. In 2017, after Jota failed to return to Porto as he wished, he joined the Wolves on loan. Then in 2020, he moved to Liverpool, pushing his career to the top.

How enthusiastically they embraced their life in England. In Wolverhampton, Ms. Cardozo posted photos of herself wearing green and gold outfits, and she also enjoyed traveling to Warwick Castle.

She also enjoyed their experience at Liverpool very much, and she posted more than once, with the soundtrack "You 'llNeverWalkAlone". She always tries her best to maintain Jota. "The game was manipulated," she wrote after a controversial game. In that game, the referee's misjudgment led to Liverpool's loss to Tottenham and her husband was sent off.

Their children were born in Liverpool in the years - first Dennis and then Duarte, and their daughter was born in November last year, but the name has not been announced yet. "You want to be the best father," Jota said in an interview with the club last month. "You try to lead by example and give them good feedback, even sometimes you want to take a little more rest in the afternoon."

You can feel how much his wife has given to the family, a promising family, embarking on an adventure together.

But life came to an abrupt end, and it was always shocking to lose an excellent player in such a situation. There are too many things that have not been completed and too many things have not been said. Laurie Cunningham's ambitions are exactly the same as Jota. When he was in his early 20s, he left West Brom and switched to Real Madrid, starting his overseas career.

In 1989, Cunningham collided with another car with a tire blowout on the roadside near Madrid at the age of 33. Considering that he is always young in the hearts of those who have watched him play, it is hard to believe that he will be 69 next month. The same is true for Reyes, who was only 35 years old when he died in a car accident in Seville six years ago.

However, the death of 28-year-old Jota brings the most vivid and truest sense of loss. Last November, he created a video to celebrate the fourth birthday of his eldest son Dennis, which recorded the growth of his two sons and was accompanied by the song "EverYours" by Portuguese artist Beo. The lyrics read: "My heart is hurting, but somehow, in the right place. You make me feel enough."

Now that Lut Cardozo has to raise two brothers and her newly six-month-old daughter alone, her sorrow is unspeakable.

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