Update: Liverpool star, Diogo Jota was 'driving to Spain to catch a ferry to the UK after 'doctors told him not to fly' before he d!ed in Lamborghini crash

 Liverpool striker, Diogo Jota d!ed with his younger brother Andre when their Lamborghini crashed as they reportedly drove through northern Spain to catch an overnight ferry to the UK.

 

The tyre of the supercar, reportedly a £150,000 Urus SUV, is said to have blown out while overtaking on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora - just ten miles over the border from Portugal. 

 

The siblings were headed to Santander to catch a ferry to Britain after Diogo was advised not to fly following lung surgery, it was reported in his home country today.

 

 

Liverpool are due to start pre-season training on Monday, so Jota was heading back to the UK on a road trip with his brother less than two weeks after he married his childhood sweetheart Rute in his home city of Porto on June 22.

 

Doctors reportedly advised the Liverpool star not to catch a plane after a recent operation. A Brittany Ferries service from Santander to Plymouth was to leave at 4pm today, and arrive in Devon at 11.15am on Friday.

 

CNN Portugal's sports editor Rui Loura said: 'The surgery he had was lung surgery and he had been advised against flying following this. 

'He was on his way to the northern Spanish port city of Santander to cross by ferry and reach the UK that way and carry on with the car once he reached Britain. He was on his way to Liverpool with his brother.'

 

Another Portuguese journalist, Victor Pinto told the country's CMTV channel: 'Diogo sometimes chose to travel by road because he had some pulmonary discomfort, nothing serious, and as we know, there is a ferry boat that connects the south of England to Spain'.

 

Jota died at the age of 28 after his Lamborghini careered off a road in northern Spain. His brother Andre, his only sibling, was 26.

 

The supercar came off the road, rolled and then burst into flames at around 12.35am, also igniting the surrounding vegetation. The emergency services were called but the brothers could not be saved.  Police say they don't yet know who was driving.

 

Liverpool FC said in a statement that the club is 'devastated' by the tragedy and that Diogo's family, friends and fans had suffered an 'unimaginable loss'. Flowers and tributes are being laid outside Anfield today, with many fans in tears.

 

Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the 28-year-old mother of his three children and partner since the age of 16.