by In addition to the flower homes, banners, silence and songs, it is an empty space in the Angardan-lasting unit, which serves the most moving memory of a tragically lost teammate when Liverpool begins her premier League defense on Friday evening.
No Liverpool player will approach the place where Diogo Jota has prepared every game day. So it is also in the Axa Training Center, an unused seat next to Harvey Elliott, who becomes his own unplanned monument. Players and employees intuitively keep a respectful distance.
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New recruits can predict a polite tap on the shoulder if they dare naively in Jota’s space and know that – just like the No. 20 jersey – they have to remain permanently free.
At some point before the opening game against Bournemouth and undoubtedly for the rest of the current generation career in Anfield, there will be a look at where Jota should be reminded of an eternal search for his name.
Since the morning of July 3, when Jota and his brother Andre Silva were killed in a car accident, the direction of the upcoming campaign and everyone else for those who played with the Liverpool footballer has been irreversibly changed.
The reigning champions are now playing more than one sport price. They are burdened and terribly inspired in some way to remember their friend, an ungrateful task with the potential to be emotionally overwhelming.
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We have already seen the scenes in the Deepdale Stadium of Preston North End during the summer tour, the games before the season against sporty Bilbao and in Wembley in front of the community Shield, although the minute of minute was unfortunately interrupted.
Liverpool fans honor Jota last Sunday with Wembley – PA/Adam Davy
A flower return remains outside of Liverpool’s training grounds, as well as the banners who have Jota’s names, and the players offer a sober recognition while driving past every day. There will be more tribute on Friday evening. A Kop mosaic will be during You’ll never Walk Alone And kept silence for a minute.
The Chelsea squad has also agreed in a gesture of solidarity with its Premier League competitor to include Jota in the distribution of 11.4 million GBP from the winning bonus of the Club World Championship. The money is donated to the families of Jota and Silva.
A mural by Jota and his brother Andre Silva covers the facade of a house near Anfield – Getty Images/Giannis Alexopoulos
News from supporters and well -wishers are written on a wall – AFP /Paul Ellis
Jota’s name will be sung in the 20-minute brand on Friday evening, and in the foreseeable future, the vocal reduction of the Kop offered his family the most suitable means to assure you that the feeling “never forgotten” is not hollow.
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The club also commissioned a sculpture for Jota and his brother, while the emblem “Forever 20” was arrived on shirts and the hem of the stadium jackets that were worn on the arrival on match days.
The ceremonies will not stop. All future meetings with Wolverhampton Wanderers, Jota’s first English club, will of course be the most emotional of all season. Should Liverpool achieve a Portuguese team in this year’s Champions League, the clubs are immediately associated to ensure that supporters and players pay a further tribute. If Liverpool approaches the winning of another large trophy, the club will not be shy to whom he wants to devote such success.
Diogo Jota’s seat in the Anfield hinged area space will remain clear as a moving monument
The closer Liverpool has come to a return to competitive measures, the greater your awareness, the balance between dark memories and professional responsibilities, players and employees who try to navigate the way between private grief and public duty.
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Liverpool’s tone was admirable in view of this unimaginable trauma.
From the beginning, the squad’s leadership group took on its role with the Boardroom chain of the Fenway Sports Group (FSG) of the Liverpool managing director of Fenway Sports Group (FSG) of the chain of Liverpool, Billy Hogan, Michael Edwards, Technical Director Julian Ward and sports director Richard Hughes.
Whatever Arne Slot achieves as a Liverpool manager, he will never deliver follow -up words more than those who were written in the first answers to Jota’s death.
Arne Slot (center) admired after Jota’s death – Getty Images/Octavio Passos
“Be yourself, don’t think you have to be different from your emotions that tell you,” he told his players. “We will always be in our hearts, in our thoughts wherever we go.”
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It was an recognition, as it was said so often and written, according to other sports tremons that there is no monopoly on grief; No series of rules or blueprint to follow strictly. Some Liverpool players want to pay their friend every time they achieve or win the team, pay meaningful honors and talk freely about their permanent feelings when it comes to the question. There are more others to keep their loss of loss privately and believe that questions about this topic are pushy. Both positions are completely correct.
Some of the Liverpool squad had problems dealing with the news when they heard it. Others – especially the more experienced members of the squad – took on a role that no footballer effectively acted as a mourning consultant for younger players. If you look at these high-ranking squad members, you are yourself in your early and mid-three years, and your extraordinary contribution to the history of Liverpool as elite athletes is now only a facet of your monumental role in an era of triumph and tragedy.
When the club thinks about whether the players should be protected from sensitive questions about Jota, it was Captain Virgil van Dijk to speak for his duty, as well as Andy Robertson.
Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson (right) effectively acted as a mourning consultant for the younger members of the Liverpool – Shutterstock/Estella Silva squad
Van Dijk will refer again on Friday in his program notes, knew that the world was being observed in larger numbers than when Liverpool returned her Angeld in a friendly before the season.
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The news that Van Dijk emphasizes most is that everything that players have been through in the past two months, Jota’s family, his wife and children, who have to offer the most support.
Visiting the squad in Anfield to experience the floral homage that were laid within hours after Jota’s death was as painful for many as the funeral. Alisson Becker and his wife Natalia headed Jota’s widow, rod to the messages that were left outside the main stand in the middle of insignificant heartache.
The world moves quickly, while fear in Angeld and Portugal remains. You only have to testify the number of articles before the season regarding the exciting transfer window from Liverpool, since so many expensive signs recognize that empathy is in short supply and what it quickly evaporates. It was the most terrible summer of their career for the players and employees, and van Dijk repeated last weekend that this will be remembered by the most difficult season. He didn’t just talk about the football challenge.
When the players missed their punishments at Wembley when the Community Shield was defeated, only a few – if someone – thought about whether one of them would have thought that winning the first trophy of this campaign would have meant so much more or would have been wondering whether they were burdened by their longing for another sensible Jota -Hommage.
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The Portugal national team will experience the same thing when he will play at the World Cup next year.
Portugal will feel Jota’s absence at the World Cup next year – GES Sportfoto/Edith Gupert
However, there is no hard judgment about external failures to recognize this. If Liverpool has a tough start in the next month next month, they are realistic enough to know that there should be an understanding of the mitigating circumstances, but sporty tribal tribalism means that there is more criticism of appearances on the player than the sympathy for what was not sounded.
No. 20 should be decorated for various purposes on every corner of Angeld this season.
That was a number that was a synonym with the title winner of Manchester United’s Liga-Titelland, which Liverpool did with such joyful celebrations last May last May.
No longer.
The hope at the end of this season is that the Honors Board will pass from Liverpool to No. 21.
It will never change the shocking reality that you will remind you forever.
