The tyre of the supercar is said to have blown out while overtaking another vehicle on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora - just ten miles over the border from Portugal.
The Portuguese forward was travelling in the super car with his younger brother Andre, 26, a fellow professional footballer who also died in the crash at Cernadilla near Zamora.
The brothers had been travelling in a Lamborghini when it veered off the road, rolled and burst into flames on the A-52 at Cernadilla near Zamora in northwestern Spain.