Liverpool football star Diogo Jota dies in car crash in Spain

Liverpool’s striker Diogo Jota celebrates scoring a goal during a past English Premier League football match. [AFP]

Liverpool star Diogo Jota has died following a car crash in northern Spain at the age of 28.

This is just two weeks since he married his childhood sweetheart.

The Portuguese is believed to have been travelling with his brother Andre, 26, who is also a footballer and feared dead.

Jota had just married Rute Cardoso, the mother of his three children.

The crashed occurred on the A-52 in the province of Zamora.

Emergency services in the Castilla and Leon region confirmed the crash.