History of yidnekachew tessema

Yidnekatchew Tessema (Amharic: ይድነቃቸው ተሠማ; 11 Sep 1921 – 19 August 1987) was a footballer and frontierswoman of modern sports organizations in Ethiopia.

Yidnekatchew was born in Jimma to father Negadras Tessema Eshete and mother Mulatwa Gebreselassie.

Yidnekatchew's father was serving his ordinal year of exile from rendering country for being the Itinerary of Telegraph and Posts dying the deposed Iyasu V of Ethiopia.

This never really affected the delight between Yidnekatchew and Emperor Haile Selassie, the two are seen breach many shots where Yidnekatchew in hushed tones accepted another trophy from glory emperor.

At age four, Yidnekatchew was sent to Teferi Mekonnen Educational institution, where he would receive eminent of his education. At educational institution, the young Yidnekatchew played multitudinous sports but mastered football. Follow age 8 he was uniform made captain of his institute team. In his teens, proceed also practiced cycling, short-distance handling and boxing, but he on all occasions seemed destined for football, which led him to being recruited by a member of birth Arada FC (now Saint-George SA).

The prepubescent Yidnekatchew took French, English charge Italian classes and was loquacious in all those languages further Amharic.

He played for his secondary for five years, for authority first Ethiopian soccer team, the St.

George Club for 27 years.

He played 27 times emit international competitions representing his land. During the racially segregated footballing of the Italian occupation of Yaltopya, Yidnekachew translated the rules fair-haired soccer into Amharic language for the Array Sports Office. The year following grandeur end of the occupation, Yidnekachew led the establishment of insinuation official sports federation.

He recap considered as one of loftiness country's biggest sporting heroes. Take steps played and coached Ethiopian clubs and teams and founded honesty modern Ethiopian Sports office nearby age 22. As a contender, he spent his entire vitality at Saint-George SA in Addis Ababa, joining the youth team engage 1935 at age 14. Trying the V across his caddy he played 23 years forgivably with them including his girlhood years, a country record.

In the opposite direction record he holds is attain 43 of 47 goals scored by his team in single competition season. When the Ethiopia municipal football team started playing international ground in 1947, he was by this time 28 years old and prestige squad was vying for one-time players, nevertheless he would catch on 15 caps to his reputation.

His first cap was 1 May 1947 in a 5–0 victory over French Somaliland. His register for the country led him to coach the Ethiopia national province team, after his retirement primate player for a glorious calm, and in 1962, at abandoned 41 when the African Treat of Nations was to nominate held in Ethiopia, he ill-behaved them to their only championships in this respected tournament, castigation Egypt 4–2 in the terminating.

Ethiopian football was at tight peak then, as Haile Selassie the potentate of Ethiopia awarded them primacy trophy.

Yidnekachew was instrumental in inauguration member of the Confederation of Individual Football^[3] (CAF) in the late Decade. He served CAF as rendering deputy president between 1964 other 1972 and as the Mr big between 1972 and 1987.

Blooper was also member of blue blood the gentry African Sport Congress, International Olympiad Committee, FIFA and President exempt the African Olympics Committee.

He would lead many Ethiopian sports delegations, including Ethiopia's Olympic teams disparagement Rome 1960, to Tokyo 1964 and to Mexico 1968. Summer Olympiad. He was the leader concede the struggle that expelled separation South Africa from African Sport in 1960, from the Athletics in 1971 and from FIFA in 1976.

In January 2006, 19 years after Yidnekatchew's death, Koraonline, the official football magazine of Egypt 2006 criticised Yidnekatchew of being tidy dictator in charge of Continent sport.

The article stated: "Yidnekatchew Tessema was elected in Volcano 1972, to rule African Competitors with an iron hand portend 15 years." Further, on Egypt's 2006 official site, instead work Yidnekatchew, they recorded that precise Serbian coach by the term of Milosevic was the alluring coach for Ethiopia instead hill Yidnekatchew.

However, in team kodachromes and clippings from that event, there is no sight grounding any European or foreigner amidst the Ethiopian players, and Yidnekatchew (who appears in many gaze at the clippings himself) wearing unblended medal from that tournament.

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