Portuguese tennis player Francisco Cabral was given permission to stray from Wimbledon’s strict all-white dress code to honor the late Liverpool and Portugal soccer star Diogo Jota, he told reporters,

Portugal and Spain players observed a period of silence before their Women’s European Championship opening game.

In the Premier League, Portugal teammate and Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes was among those to pay tribute to Jota. “Friend, colleague and companion in a thousand battles,” he wrote. “It is difficult to understand how it is possible for someone to leave so soon.