Fans and celebrities honored the late soccer player Diogo Jota outside of Anfield Stadium in Liverpool and on social media.

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.

Scarves, flowers and heart-warming messages in memory of Diogo Jota have been placed outside Anfield. Liverpool forward Jota and his brother Andre Silva died following a crash on the A-52 in Palacios de Sanabria near the city of Zamora in Spain at 12.40am on Thursday.