The death of Liverpool striker Jota has shocked the football world.

According to DFB captain Joshua Kimmich, the death of Liverpool's star striker Diogo Jota has also weighed heavily on the FC Bayern players ahead of their quarterfinal match at the Club World Cup. Especially since João Palhinha and Raphaël Guerreiro, two compatriots of the Portuguese international who died in an accident, are part of the Munich squad.

"Of course, we talked about it. And of course, you can tell it's happening to both of them," Kimmich reported in Atlanta a few hours before today's match against Champions League winners Paris Saint-Germain. "It's even more special when you had a personal relationship with someone who then had an accident like that. Especially if you were a teammate of his, it doesn't leave you unscathed," said the 30-year-old Bayern Munich pro.

Jota, 28, died in a car accident in Spain on Thursday along with his younger brother André Silva. "It certainly shows us how fragile everything is," Kimmich, a father of four, told reporters at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Friday evening (local time). "We're talking about football here now, about the quarterfinals—and who will win. All of which we obviously consider important—and which is a good thing."

Nevertheless, in such moments, one realizes "what is really important," said Kimmich: "Of course, there are accidents every day. But you are always a little more affected if you knew the person. We played against each other in the Nations League a few weeks ago," the international recalled the German national team's 2-1 defeat in the semi-final in Munich against eventual Nations League winners Portugal.

It was Kimmich's 100th international match. Jota had been substituted on in the closing stages at the Munich Arena. Bayern held a minute's silence for Jota on Thursday before their training session at the World Cup base camp in Orlando. There will also be a minute's silence before kickoff of the match against Paris today (6:00 p.m. CEST/Sat.1/DAZN).