Diogo Jota

Portuguese footballer (1996-2025)

Diogo Jota (1996–2025) was a Portuguese footballer. He was born in Porto on 4 December 1996. He died in Zamora Province on 3 July 2025, at the age of 29.

Diogo Jota competed in association football as a forward. The clubs and national sides on that record are F.C. Paços de Ferreira (2014–2016), 41 appearances and 14 goals, Atlético Madrid (2016–2018), the Portugal national under-19 football team (2014–2015), 9 appearances and 5 goals, the Portugal national under-21 football team (2015–2018), 20 appearances and 8 goals and Portugal Olympic football team (in 2016), 1 appearance and 1 goal. He had begun working by 2014.

The recorded cause of death is traffic collision.

F.C. Paços de Ferreira was founded in 1950.

Diogo Jota is covered in 71 language editions of Wikipedia, a rough measure of how far the name has carried beyond Portugal.

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