Yidnekatchew Tessema (
Amharic: ይድነቃቸው ተሠማ; 11 September 1921 – 19 August 1987) was a footballer 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 ...
.
Soccer career
He played for his school for five years, for the first Ethiopian soccer team, the
St. George Club for 27 years. He played 27 times in international competitions. During the racially segregated footballing of the
Italian occupation of Ethiopia
Italian East Africa ( it, Africa Orientale Italiana, AOI) was an Italian colony in the Horn of Africa. It was formed in 1936 through the merger of Italian Somalia, Italian Eritrea, and the newly occupied Ethiopian Empire, conquered in the Sec ...
, Yidnekatchew translated the rules of soccer into
Amharic language for the Native Sports Office.
The year following the end of the occupation, Yidnekatchew led the establishment of an official sports federation.
Tessema was a founding member of the
Confederation of African Football (CAF) in the late 1950s. He served CAF as the deputy president between 1964 and 1972 and as the President between 1972 and 1987. He was also member of the African Sport Congress, International Olympics Committee,
FIFA and President of the African Olympics Committee.
References
External links
Yidnekatchew obituary on St. George's FC website
Tales of Arada an article by Yidenkachew Tessema
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1921 births
1987 deaths
People from Jimma
Presidents of the Confederation of African Football
Association football executives
Ethiopian footballers
Ethiopia international footballers
Saint George S.C. players
Ethiopia national football team managers
Ethiopian football managers
1963 African Cup of Nations managers
Ethiopian journalists
Association football forwards
Sportspeople from Oromia Region
20th-century journalists
Saint George S.C. managers
Members of the CAF Executive Committee