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.

Mr. Jota and his brother André Silva died in Spain, the authorities said. The crash came two weeks after the Portuguese player’s wedding.

Liverpool and Portuguese international soccer player Diogo Jota and his brother, André Silva, were killed in a car accident early Thursday morning in Spain. The cause of the accident is not entirely clear,