Cheick Tiote memorial service held in Beijing as former Newcastle United team-mate Papiss Cisse breaks into tears while paying tribute
June 14, 2017
Tiote died while
training with Chinese club Beijing Enterprises, and well wishers were given an
opportunity to pay their respects to the midfielder during the Beijing service.
The Ivorian's former
Toon team-mate Papiss Cisse was in attendance and couldn't fight back the tears
as he paid tribute to Tiote.
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| Papiss Cisse paid tribute to Cheick Tiote during the latter's memorial service in Beijing |
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| Beijing Enterprises players also showed their emotions
during the service for the 30-year-old
The news sent
shock-waves around the football world and prompted a tide of tributes, most
notably from former managers Steve McClaren and Alan Pardew.
With Tiote's passing
coming just little under two months after former Aston Villa defender Ugo
Ehiogu died of a cardiac arrest, Andy Cole has questioned whether more could be
done to protect players from heart problems.
'If someone is only 30
and they pass away, the question that is naturally going to be asked is 'Why?
What's gone on there? Why has he passed away so early?'', Cole told BBC Radio
Five Live.
Tiote's Beijing team-mates bow their head at the
star's coffin in a final act of respect
Well-wishers pay
their respects to the coffin draped with a flag of the Ivory Coast
People raise a poster to remember footballer
Cheick Tiote during his memorial service
'It's a strange one.
Cheick Tiote hadn't been in China that long - a few months - so he must have
had a medical to complete the transfer. Was nothing picked up in that medical?
'Is anything actually
being done? Is it being looked into? We need to nail it down and get to the
bottom of why and what it is, because it seems to be happening to more and more
professional footballers - fit, strong men.'
RIP STRONG MAN....... YOU'LL BE GREATLY MISSED
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