Trent Alexander-Arnold fights back tears, while Real Madrid star is with his former teammate of Liverpool Diogo Jota after the tragic death of Forward on 28

Real Madrid star Trent Alexander-Arnold fought back tears while Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund gave homage to Diogo Jota.

A moment of silence was held before the kick-off at the FIFA Club World Cup Quarter final on Saturday evening in honor of Diogo Jota.

The competition took place slightly less than 72 hours after Jota and his brother Andre Silva died in a car accident in North Spain.

Alexander-Arnold was a teammate of Jota in Liverpool for five years and he was moved during the tribute.

The 26-year-old and his Real Madrid also kept a minute of silence in training on Thursday, with the right back and then sharing a sincere message.

Trent Alexander-Arnold fought back the tears during a moment of silence for Diogo Jota

Alexander-Arnold was a teammate of Jota in Liverpool for five years

Jota, 28, and his brother Andre, 26, both died after a car accident in Spain

Within the message he described how much Jota meant to him and admitted that he had trouble bringing the news to terms.

“It is so difficult to find the right words when your head and heart are struggling to accept that someone you care about has gone,” wrote Alexander-Arnold.

He continued: ‘Diogo, your family was your world. They were everything. Our hearts are broken for Rute, his children and his parents. And also for Andre. Brothers and best friends.

‘If it is less painful, I want to remember Diogo with a big smile. Laughing so much and happy moments. He was such a great teammate and a real friend.

Forever number 20. Rest in Vrede, Diogo. ‘

The duo played together for Liverpool For five years, with 144 games as teammates.

Jota died next to his brother when his Lamborghini had a band, catching another vehicle on the A -52 in Cernadilla near Zamora – only ten miles across the border from Portugal.

The car would have been rolled and broken into flames, with emergency services that cannot save the football duo. Jota’s brother, Andre Silva, 26, played for Penaphile of the Portuguese Second Division.

Together Alexander-Arnold and Jota played 144 times more than five years for Liverpool

Many of Jota’s Liverpool teammates past and today lived the funeral service on Saturday

Jota and Silva went to Santander to catch a ferry to Groot -Britain after Diogo was advised not to fly after pulmonary operation, it was reported in his home country.

His death, who throwing clouds of sorrow over the football world, came only two weeks after he was married to his girlfriend and mother of their three children Rute Cardoso in Porto, his home town.

Many of Jota’s Liverpool teammates in the past and the present lived the Funeral service in GondomarPortugal, on Saturday.

Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Jordan Henderson, James Milner and Joe Gomez belonged to those who paid their respect, with Van Dijk and Robertson who wore flower tribute in the church.

Liverpool -Manager Arne Slot and various Portuguese internationals, including Bruno Fernandes, Joao Moutinho and Ruben Neves, were also present and joined hundreds of mourning people who stood the streets to honor Jota, who scored 65 goals in 182 performances for the last season.