Metropole · Sport

—The gesture. Portugal’s players, including Cristiano Ronaldo, are wearing wristbands in memory of Diogo Jota at the World Cup.

—The loss. Jota, a Liverpool forward, died in a car crash in July last year, aged twenty-eight.

—The squad. Coach Roberto Martinez named him the symbolic “plus one,” calling the group twenty-seven names plus one.

—The wristbands. Prime Minister Luís Montenegro handed players bands bearing the squad’s names alongside Jota’s.