The service in Gondomar is now over, but as the barriers are removed, people are still making their way into the church cemetery where earlier a private ceremony was held to lay the brothers to rest.
One by one mourners are filing past the brothers’ graves.
On top sit two red shirts – floral tributes carried into the church earlier by Liverpool players Virgil Van Dijk and Andy Robertson. They feature the numbers 20 and 30, worn by Diogo and André.
There’s a small card, containing a message from Liverpool Football Club, which ends with the words: “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
As the streets of Gondomar clear of visitors, and it returns to the quiet town it once was, it does so without two of its most famous sons.
But people here say they have left this community in a better place for having lived.
Relatives and fans of 28-year-old Liverpool footballer Diogo Jota have honoured the lives of him and his brother André Silva today.
The brothers died in a car crash in Spain on Thursday. Officials say it went off the road due to a tyre blowout while overtaking another vehicle. The news left the football world in shock – many left tributes at the clubs where he had played.
Jota was on his way back to Liverpool for pre-season training, making the trip by car and ferry because he had undergone minor surgery so doctors advised him against flying.
He had married his long-term partner Rute Cardoso, with whom he had three children, just 11 days before.
Mourners attended the brothers’ funeral in their hometown Gondomar on Saturday. As Diogo Jota’s teammates joined his relatives to mourn the Liverpool star, hundreds gathered outside the Igreja Matriz to pay their respects.
People were stood in silence in the streets as they listened to an audio broadcast of the service, writes sports reporter Matt Graveling. Meanwhile, grieving fans told our reporter Sofia Ferreira Santos that witnessing the ceremony was hard but beautiful.
For Liverpool manager Arne Slot, “Diogo was not just our player. He was a loved one to all of us. He was a teammate, a colleague, a workmate and in all of those roles he was very special” – a sentiment echoed in countless other tributes shared over the last few days.
