The new Ethiopian Women’s Soccer League season appears to be business as usual for the double defending champions, Dedebit FC taking full command of the table. Long time Ethio-Electric coach Theodros Desta resigned saying he was to blame for the team being bottom of the table with just three points from six matches.
The only club with a hundred percent record Dedebit, thrashed Saint George 4-2 on Monday to take the lead eight points clear of second place Gedeo-Dilla. Last season Women’s Player of the Year Losa Aberra has been getting wiser and deadlier and leads the scoring chart with five goals, there appears to be no one to stop “The Blues” from another successful season. Dedebit has 18 points from six matches.
After a win over surprising Hawassa, Gedeo appears the only side in contention of the group runner up spot with 11 points from three wins, two draws and one defeat.
Back from two consecutive draws Mekelakya defeated Ethio-Electric 2-1 trying hard to keep close contact with the league leaders. The Army side is said to have a strong squad but lacks consistency.
With three wins, one draw and two defeats NegedBank sits fourth in the table with 10 points eight clear of league leaders and historic rivals Dedebit FC.
With only a single win in six matches Ethio-Electric and national U-20 Women’s coach Theodros Desta’s resignation is not surprising for the result itself speaks loud. But that Theodros officially admitted and took full accountability for the team’s poor result is a miracle in Ethiopian Football famous as the usual behavior is to blame and pointing fingers at others. “Despite every support from the club, I failed the fans as well the players therefore I have resigned taking full responsibility for the poor result,” Theodros said, a huge lesson for those notorious in the blame games.

After three consecutive matches without a win and sitting ninth in the table with 12 points from eleven matches, in poor form Ethiopia Bunna signed a striker from Uganda while handing Kirizestom Ntambi a letter demanding he reimburse them six months of salary for allegedly fake injuries.
After two defeats and a draw in the last three outings, the newly appointed Ethiopia Bunna Coach Gomes da Rosa’s famous “Water to Wine” miracle in his very first season appears out of hand. The French mentor turned his face to the 28 year- old Ugandan international Boban Zirintusa Bogere.
He has played for seven clubs in nine years and 76 goals in 203 appearances Bogere was featured in 21 games at all levels: U-20, U-23 as well the Ugandan senior team scoring only once. Though the 1.82 meter Bogere walked out just six months in to a three year contract with Buildcon FC, he appears a striker with a mission to Ethiopia Bunna. He has ten goals in eleven matches and three each from play maker Elias Mamo and winger Samuel Sannumi, Bogere is expected to help Ethiopia Bunna score goals and progress in the league table.
In the meantime the other Ugandan to join a club, Jimma AbaJifar in September is accused of fake injuries to avoid playing for the club. Following the accusation the club found Kirizestom Ntambi guilty and ordered the player to pay his salary back. According to reports further measure is afoot based on the striker’s performance. Ntambi appeared only twice so far in the season for “The Brown Shirts”

Organizers of the Boston Marathon have announced Ethiopian and rival Kenyan dominated full elite field for the IAAF Gold Label road race on 16 April. Between them, the elite field has won 14 global championship medals and 17 World Marathon Majors titles, six of which came from the Boston Marathon.
World marathon silver medalist and Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist Tamerat Tola is the fastest in the field. The Ethiopian won last year’s Dubai Marathon in a personal best of 2:04:11 before going on to finish second to Kirui at the World Championships in London.
Two-time Boston Marathon champion and 2013 world silver medalist Lelisa Desisa and 2016 Boston Marathon winner Lemi Berhanu are also in the men’s field. The Ethiopian duo, both of whom have sub-2:05 PBs, recently finished third and fourth respectively at last year’s New York City Marathon.
Ten of the athletes in the women’s elite field have PBs faster than 2:23, including Olympic silver medalist Eunice Kirwa of Bahrain and three-time Dubai Marathon winner Aselefech Mergia of Ethiopia. Course record-holder Buzunesh Deba of Ethiopia will return to the scene of her 2014 triumph, while two-time Frankfurt Marathon winner Mamitu Daska will be making her third appearance in Boston.
Caroline Rotich, who won the 2015 Boston Marathon, returns and is joined by fellow Kenyan Gladys Chesir, who makes her Boston debut after finishing runner-up in Amsterdam last year. With a half marathon personal best of 1:06:57, Chesir could be in the chase for the title.