Missing Ivory Coast footballer found dead in river
By Timilehin Ajagunna
Former Wigan and Ivory Coast defender, Steve Gohouri, who was reported missing three weeks ago in December, has been found dead in a river.
The 34-year-old footballer had been unaccounted for since attending a Christmas party for his German club TSV Steinbach.
He was then set to visit family in Paris, but never arrived.
TSV said on their website that the death of Gohouri had been confirmed by Duesseldorf Police, who found his body in the River Rhine, in the western city of Krefeld.
Gohouri, a defender who played for Ivory Coast between 2006 and 2009, scored two goals in 42 games for Borussia Moenchengladbach between 2007 and 2009.
As well as playing for Wigan in England, he also played for clubs across Europe including Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Greece and Germany.
TSV released the following statement after Gohouri’s death:
All the officials, players, coaches and assistants of TSV Steinbach are deeply moved by the death of Steve Gohouri. Our thoughts are with his relatives in these difficult hours.
And here’s what Dusseldorf Police said about the tragedy:
On December 31 2015, the corpse of initially an unknown man was found in the Rhine near Krefeld. In the meantime, the dead could be identified as the 34-year-old who had been reported missing on December 12 2015. An autopsy showed no evidence of violence by third parties.
Source: theNETng.
