{"id":328792,"date":"2017-06-16T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T08:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328792"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T08:21:05","slug":"cheick-tiote-ivory-coast-midfielders-body-flown-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328792","title":{"rendered":"Cheick Tiote: Ivory Coast midfielder\u2019s body flown back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"story-body\" class=\"story-body sp-story-body gel-body-copy\">\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Cheick Tiote\u2018s body has been flown back to Ivory Coast where a private funeral for the Beijing Enterprises midfielder will take place.<\/p>\n<p>Tiote, 30, who was a member of the Elephants squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, collapsed and died during a training session with his Chinese club last week.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday there was a memorial service held in the Chinese capital, attended by family, friends and former team-mates.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC understands that Tiote\u2019s family wants him buried in his home town Yamoussoukro but the Ivory Coast Football Federation prefers Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people, including former Elephants coach Herve Renard, were at Abidjan\u2019s international airport to receive Tiote\u2019s body on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City striker Wilfried Bony, Celtic defender Kolo Toure and ex-Arsenal forward Gervinho were also among the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Toure described the former Newcastle United midfielder as \u201ca great player, a warrior\u201d and said he was \u201cshocked\u201d by his death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix gel-mb+\">Source: BBC<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheick Tiote\u2018s body has been flown back to Ivory Coast where a private funeral for the Beijing Enterprises midfielder will take place. Tiote, 30, who was a member of the Elephants squad that won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations, collapsed and died during a training session with his Chinese club last week. On Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8235,3],"class_list":["post-328792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chieck-tiote","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}