{"id":4250,"date":"2017-06-06T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T04:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2017-06-06T13:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T04:37:05","slug":"tributes-football-world-cheick-tiotes-sudden-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/06\/tributes-football-world-cheick-tiotes-sudden-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Tributes from football world after Cheick Tiote&#8217;s sudden death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Newcastle United midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/06\/cheick-tiote-dies-collapsing-training-beijing-enterprises\/\">Cheick Tiot\u00e9 <\/a>has died after reportedly suffering a heart attack during training sessions with his new club Beijing Enterprises FC on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old midfielder joined Chinese League One side Beijing Enterprises in January for an undisclosed fee after spending seven seasons at St James\u2019 Park.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-team Newcastle have been one of several English clubs to offer condolences to Tiote&#8217;s family. &#8220;We are devastated to have learnt of the tragic passing of former Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote in China today,\u201d the club wrote on their official Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing Enterprises also paid tribute to their deceased star in a statement: \u201cBeijing Enterprises football club expresses its deep sorrow and profound condolences for Mr Tiot\u00e9\u2019s untimely death,\u201d as quoted by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/jun\/05\/cheick-tiote-death-china-newcastle-ivory-coast\"> The Guardian.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On social media, numerous teams and players have mourned the death of 30-year-old midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>Tiote\u2019s former Newcastle team-mate Demba Ba was among the first to share his condolences. \u201cMay Allah gives grant you jannah brother Tiote,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Current Newcastle boss Rafa Benitez said: &#8216;In all the time that I have known him, he was a true professional, dedicated and above all, a great man,\u201d as quoted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/cheick-tiote-dead-tributes-footballer-newcastle-demba-ba-death-dies-latest-a7774116.html\">The Independent.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiot\u00e9 has died after reportedly suffering a heart attack during training sessions with his new club Beijing Enterprises FC on Monday. The 30-year-old midfielder joined Chinese League One side Beijing Enterprises in January for an undisclosed fee after spending seven seasons at St James\u2019 Park. Ex-team Newcastle have been one of several English clubs to offer condolences to Tiote&#8217;s family. &#8220;We are devastated to have learnt of the tragic passing of former Newcastle United midfielder Cheick Tiote in China today,\u201d the club wrote on their official Twitter. Beijing Enterprises also paid tribute to their deceased star in a statement: \u201cBeijing Enterprises football club expresses its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/2017\/06\/06\/tributes-football-world-cheick-tiotes-sudden-death\/\" class=\"tribe-more-link\">Continue reading &#8220;Tributes from football world after Cheick Tiote&#8217;s sudden death&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":4251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,30],"tags":[881,234,154,350,235],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-east-asia","tag-beijing-enterprises","tag-cheick-tiote","tag-china","tag-chinese-league-one","tag-newcastle-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}