Teshome Getu ( am, ጠስሆመ ጘቱ, born 7 February 1983 in

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

) is an Ethiopian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

midfielder. He currently plays for

EEPCO Ethio Electric Sport Club (Amharic: ኢትዮ ኤሌክትሪክ ስፖርት ክለብ), also known as EEPCO or Mebrat Hail, is an Ethiopian football club based in Addis Ababa. The club currently plays in the Ethiopian Higher League, the second ...

International career

Getu is a member of the

Ethiopia national football team The Ethiopia national football team, nicknamed ''ዋሊያ'', after the Walia, represents Ethiopia in men's international football and is controlled by the Ethiopian Football Federation, the governing body for football in Ethiopia. The team ...

and he was a member of the Ethiopia squad at the 2001 FIFA World Youth Cup.Ethiopia roster
- FIFA

Honors

Ethiopian Premier League The Ethiopian Premier League ( Amharic:የኢትዮጵያ ፕሪምየር ሊግ), known as the BetKing Ethiopian Premier League for sponsorship reasons, is the top tier association football league of Ethiopia run by the Ethiopian Premier League ...

: 3 ::2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06 *

Ethiopian Super Cup The Ethiopian Super Cup ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ አሸናፊዎች አሸናፊ ዋንጫ) is a match competition in Ethiopian football, played between the Ethiopian Premier League champions and the Ethiopian Cup winners. Finals *1985 : B ...

: 2 ::2005, 2006

References

Teshome Getu was featured with his family in the book Material World: A Global Family Portrait, which was written by Peter Menzel, Charles C. Mann, and Paul Kennedy.

External links

* 1983 births Living people Ethiopian men's footballers Ethiopia men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders {{Ethiopia-footy-bio-stub