By the Capela da Ressurreição, a quiet side street on the outskirts of Porto, a crowd had been gathering all night long.
Anticipating the most sorrowful of homecomings.
And at 11:30 PM the preceding evening, the stillness of the night was pierced by applause as the hearse transporting the coffins of two footballers, sons of Gondomar, arrived.
Tributes are paid to Liverpool forward Jota
It was precisely 23 hours earlier that the northen Spain car crash claimed the lives of Diogo Jota and Andre Silva.
The tragedy resonates globally but is most painfully felt in their hometowns.
