Here's everything you need to know about Portugal star Diogo Jota's girlfriend Rute Cardoso and their children together. Diogo Jota married his longtime love, wife Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks before he and his brother, Andre, died. Learn about Diogo's family here. Jota wed his longtime partner, Rute Cardoso, on June 22. In his final social media post before his death, Jota shared a video from their nuptials: "A day we will never forget," he wrote on... Liverpool star Diogo Jota 's death at just 28 has heartbreakingly left his wife - who he had wed just two weeks earlier, after being together for 12 years - a widow.