Football Fans Mourns The Untimely End Of Cheick Tiote, Cote Ivoire Player.

Yesterday, former Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tioté passed away at the age of 30 after collapsing in training with Beijing Enterprises in China. Hours before he slumped and died, he had a chat with one of his friends, Yusuf Abubakar Tumi, where he prayed that God should make them bigger in Heaven than in this world.

However,Cheick Tiote, 28, who earns £45,000 a week playing for Newcastle United, reportedly wed Laeticia Doukrou in a traditional ceremony earlier this month, saying taking another wife was 'nothing unusual' given he is a Muslim.

But news of the second wedding came as a surprise to his first wife, Madah, 25, who is said to have only found out about it on Facebook. Madah, who lives with Tiote and their two children in a £1.5m house in a village outside Newcastle, reportedly fainted with shock when she saw the photographs of her husband marrying another woman.

May his soul  rest on in Allah's bossom

 Check screengrabs of their chat as shared by Yusuf after the cut...