Liverpool FC player Diogo Jota and his brother died in a car accident in Spain in what the Premier League-winning club is calling an "unimaginable loss."

As a child Diogo Jota idolized Cristiano Ronaldo. In a career that took him to soccer stardom, he would go on to call the Portugal great a teammate and win some of the sport’s biggest trophies.

The soccer star had reportedly opted to take the longer route because he’d been advised by doctors not to get on a plane while recovering from a lung-related surgery.