Overview
- The error occurred during Real Madrid’s Ordinary General Assembly in a memorial video intended to honor those who died this year.
- An official statement on X apologized to Elche CF and André da Silva for using his image instead of that of Jota’s brother, André Silva.
- President Florentino Pérez repeated the apology at the assembly, calling the mistake a human error.
- Attention intensified because Madrid were scheduled to play Elche later that day, with da Silva expected to feature.
- Diogo Jota, 28, and his brother André Silva, 25, died in a July 3 car crash in Spain, which has prompted widespread tributes across football.