Overview
- Media excerpts, which surfaced Thursday and Friday, recount Rute Cardoso texting Jota to call when he stopped so she could show him their wedding video.
- The official book, titled “Nunca Mais é Muito Tempo” by José Manuel Delgado, is due out in Portugal on April 9 and draws on about 90 testimonies from family, teammates and coaches.
- Spanish Civil Guard statements from July 2025 said Jota was driving and that excess speed and a tyre blowout during an overtake likely caused the crash, with the full police file lodged with a judge and not made public.
- Cardoso describes trying to reach Jota by phoning his planned hotel, hospitals and police as worry grew, and she has since moved with their children back to Gondomar near Porto.
- Liverpool’s remembrance includes retiring Jota’s No. 20 shirt, while the biography gathers tributes from figures such as Arne Slot, Jürgen Klopp, Roberto Martínez, Rúben Dias and Bernardo Silva.