Overview
- Real Madrid issued a public apology on X to Elche CF and its player André Silva for the misidentification in an in‑house tribute video.
- The mistake occurred at the club’s ordinary members’ meeting, where a slideshow honored football figures who died this year.
- Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva died in a July 3 car crash in Spain’s Zamora province, with early findings pointing to probable excessive speed.
- The late André Silva was a professional footballer who played for Portuguese second‑division side FC Penafiel.
- Some coverage described the incorrect image as showing an André Silva in an RB Leipzig shirt, a detail reported by a single outlet and not broadly corroborated.