Ethiopian international arbiter Bamlak Tessema has been appointed as a fourth official on the ongoing FIFA World Cup group stage games. It will be Bamlak’s first ever assignment in the prestigious world football tournament.
Bamlak is the fourth official when Costa Rica tackles Serbia in Group E game which will be held at Samara Arena. Senegalese trio Malanga Diedhiou, Djibril Camera and El Hadji Samba are appointed to officiate the tie while Russian Tikhon Kalugin is the reserve match official.
Source: soccerethiopia.net
Russia 2018 FIFA Assigns Bamlak as a Fourth Official
Bezuayehu leads Super League top scorers’ chart
Jimma AbaBuna’s striker Bezuayehu Endashaw has emerged as the leading scorer in the Ethiopian Super League after a braid in a 3-3 home draw with National Cement FC. Four goal hunters in the squad Group “B” top spot Debub Police appears to have the best armament to go all through promotion.
Though a slow start at the first round fixtures, the promotion aspiring teams’ strikers have started producing a number of goals to help their respective sides’ dreams come true. Unlike other teams group “B” leaders Debub Police with a goal tally of 39 have four strikers each contributing an equal number of goals while AbaBuna and others solely are dependent on a single target man.
AbuBuna’s goal machine Bezuayehu Endashaw is a one man strike force contributing nearly half of the goals the team has scored. He has 13 goals out of the total 31. Bezuayehu is currently the most prized player shouldering the responsibility of taking AbaBuna back to the upper tier.
The second place team in Group A, Addis Ababa’s target man Fekadu Alemu is joint second with Selte Werabe’s striker G/Meskel Dubale each with eight goals in their pocket.
Debub Police appear to be well equipped in the front as there are four players capable of changing results. Their number one striker Biruk Elias is jointly third with Hadiya’s Ebsa Befekadu each with eight goals. In the meantime Debub Police’s trio of Kenyan Eric Muranda, Behailu Wegene and Abebaw Yohannes are sharing fourth place with four other players each bagging seven goals.
Former EPL Champion Negussie Desta passed away
Former Ethiopian Premier League champion Negussie Desta had died on Monday following an emergency situation is widely regarded as Dedebit’s greatest ever Head Coach steering the side to 2013 Premier League championship title.
Despite turbulent seasons while in the hot seat of Defense Force (Mekelakya) and Ethiopia NegedBank, he happened to be the architect of the hard to beat Dedebit breaking the long standing rivalry of two horses Kidus Giorgis and Ethiopia Bunna.
Passionate and sometimes spitting fire while under pressure the heavy set yet a man of detail Negussie had been in his second spell with The Blues that started the 2018 season in style leading the league table until the final two matches of the first round when he got suspended for manhandling the referee. Had it not been for that suspension, Negusse’s hard work of forging strong comradery along with big name players the likes of Getaneh Kebede, Seyoum Tesfaye, Aynalem Hailu and Asrat Megersa, Dedebit could have made Dedebit once again Ethiopian Champion. “It was not the football but his capacity as a strong motivator makes him different than any other coaches that graced the team” a player in the current squad remarked.
He returned to action a month before the incident and was focused on inspiring Dedebit to revive in to the second round. Negusse’s passed away just exactly a year from former Ethiopia Bunna and National team striker Asseged Tesfaye’s sudden death due to heart failure.
Out of the blue Essayas Jirra voted EFF’s new President
Essayas Jirra of Oromia emerged as the Ethiopian Football Federation surprise President following the climax of the long overdue dramatic Presidential election. Unpopular Juneidin Basha denied a second term after walking out of the re-run election while former Vice President Teka Asfaw lost a majority vote.
The primary voting was a close run among three of the four candidates with Essayas pulling together 66, Teka collected 47, the outgoing president Junedin claimed 28 votes while late comer Tesfaye Kahesay managed only three. But for the regulation of a 50+1 vote in order to win the election, Essayas managed a land slide re-run victory securing 84 with Teka finishing second amassing 58 votes.
First degree in Biology and more than twenty years as Sport official at different positions including Jimma AbaJIfar Club President, Essayas had been relatively unknown figure until the chaotic situation raised some eight months back. Considering what energy and time the front runners Juneidin Basha, Teka Asfaw and Dr Asheber W/Giorgis wasted in the election campaign for the past ten months Essayas joined late in to the election as underdog.
However with a dramatic turn around that left frustrated Junedin and Tesfaye walking out of the re-run, the people’s choice Essayas Jirra took the mantle as Ethiopian Football Federation President for the coming four years. “We need to work together in order to bring change, success and bring something big in the country’s football.” Essayas remarked after the historic victory. “I believe in team work and ready to work with everyone willing to achieve our common goal” he added.
