Tesfaye Gebreyesus Difue (1935 – 24 August 2019) was an Ethiopian-Eritrean

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

referee A referee is an official, in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection. The official tasked with this job may be known by a variety of other titl ...

. He officiated in competitions such as the 1977 and 1981 FIFA World Youth Championships, 1984 Summer Olympics, 1978 FIFA World Cup and six Africa Cup of Nations (1970, 1978, 1980, 1984, 1986, 1988). He died in Asmara, Eritrea on 24 August 2019. Following his retirement as a referee, he became president of the

Eritrean National Football Federation The Eritrean National Football Federation (E.N.F.F.) ( ti, ሃገራዊ ፈደረሽን ኩዕሶ እግሪ ኤርትራ) is the governing body of football in Eritrea. History The ENFF was founded in 1996 and affiliated to FIFA and the Confede ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gebreyesus, Tesfaye 1935 births 2019 deaths Ethiopian football referees Eritrean football referees