For us. For our families.
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For Diogo Jota. For the whole country.
For Portugal. So we are going to give everything we have to win against Croatia tomorrow," Vitinha said.
Biography and Tributes
Journalist Jose Manuel Delgado authored an official biography titled "Diogo Jota, Never Again Is Too Long" after interviewing numerous family members and associates.
"It's not a book about football, it's a book about people," Delgado said.
"I spoke to 80 or 90 people and all of them wanted to speak, even though it was hurtful.
It gave them pain to talk about Diogo, but everyone felt they owed it to him to speak so that his memory could be kept in the book."
The biography project involved extensive coordination with Jota's widow to preserve his memory for his three children.
"None of the interviews were easy but people wanted to help. I spoke with Rute about the importance the book would have for his three children.
We decided it would be a very good way for them to know their father.
It was this thought that made his family suffer through dozens of hours of interviews.
It was not easy but it was not meant to be easy," Delgado said.
Former Liverpool teammates also expressed the deep psychological impact of the tragedy on their subsequent season.
"We can't hide away from it, and it is not an excuse, but what we went through in the summer, no team will ever go through; no member of staff will go through," defender Andy Robertson said.
