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Cheick Tiote had child with Zimbabwean lover
11 Jun 2017 at 10:56hrs | Views
FORMER Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote, 30, who collapsed and died on Monday while training with his Chinese club had a child with UK-based Zimbabwean lover Nkosiphile Mpofu, also known as Nikki.
According to NewZimbabwe, the affair with Nikki blew up in the UK media in September 2014 when the married Tiote was playing for Newcastle and living with wife Madah and their two children in a £1,5million mansion in Ponteland.
The Ivory Coast international had reportedly gone off to his native Ivory Coast and married a second woman. And Nikki, whose baby from a three-year affair with Tiote was then just one-year-old, was not best pleased.
Nikki, then aged 33, promptly ended the relationship, claiming that Tiote had promised to marry her too. The Zimbabwean reportedly moaned to a friend; "He (Tiote) met my mum and said he's permitted to have several wives.
"I was comfortable with that. He's used me like a mop. He's just a pig."
According to NewZimbabwe, the affair with Nikki blew up in the UK media in September 2014 when the married Tiote was playing for Newcastle and living with wife Madah and their two children in a £1,5million mansion in Ponteland.
Nikki, then aged 33, promptly ended the relationship, claiming that Tiote had promised to marry her too. The Zimbabwean reportedly moaned to a friend; "He (Tiote) met my mum and said he's permitted to have several wives.
"I was comfortable with that. He's used me like a mop. He's just a pig."
Source - NewZimbabwe.com
