Jose Agostinho Becker, 57, drowned Wednesday afternoon in a lake on the family’s ranch near the town of Lavras do Sul, southern Brazil.
Alisson Becker being forced to miss the funeral of his father comes just over two weeks after his Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, was absent from the funeral of his mother
He then had to make the heartbreaking decision to stay in the UK, according to a source close to the star.
Jose Agostinho Becker, 57, drowned Wednesday afternoon in a lake on the family’s ranch near the town of Lavras do Sul, southern Brazil.
Mr Becker’s body was found at around midnight by the bank of a river by friends and employees of the property who had started a search after his concerned family had raised the alarm at around 5pm. No foul play has been suspected.
It is believed Mr Becker, a real estate broker, had travelled on his own to the family’s rural holiday property, which has no mobile phone signal, while his wife Magali stayed behind at their home in Novo Hamburgo, 220 miles away.Tragically he went to the ranch because he believed the isolated home would be safer as coronavirus sweeps southern Brazil, and after strict lockdown measures were imposed on the state of Rio Grande do Sul a week ago.
After receiving the devastating news on Wednesday night Alisson, who would speak to his dad every day, was determined to return to Brazil, according to a source at Sport Clube Internacional in Porto Alegre, the top flight club where he played before leaving for Europe.
Alission’s older brother Muriel, 34, goalkeeper at Rio de Janeiro club Fluminese, arrived at his parent’s home city on Thursday morning.
The source said: ‘He was doing everything he could to find a way, desperately looking at flights and ways he could get around both the ban on flights from the UK and the severe Covid restrictions in the state.