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Ethiopia's FC Saint George names Giuseppe Dossena as new manager

By Ermias Ashine

Giuseppe Dossena has taken the throne of coaching St. Gorge of Ethiopia replacing Mitcho, who left St. George, with ending of contract and mutual consent in the end of June, to join Sudanese champions Almerich.

Dossena, who led Ghana to almost a dozen matches without defeat before a 2−0 loss at the hands of Tunisia in December 1999 and won the under −20 African youth championships at home in 1999, has no experience of working in Ethiopia but St. George's chair man Abnet G/Meskel said he had no doubts that they had the right man for the job.

“The Italian is a hugely experienced coach with a proven track record of wining trophies and his profile tells us that 90% of his jobs are successful and his best side is, he deems in youths So by seeing these achievements we decided to have a two years contract, up to 2012” he said.

“What absolutely clear is that Dossena believes in Saint Georges potential to achieve at highest level, that is being the top four African clubs and importantly in his own ability to make this happen.” Abnet added.

Giuseppe Dossena was born on May 2, 1958 in Milan. He is a manager and former player. Dossena began his playing career for Torino, being successively even capped for the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He then played for Bologna, Udinese, Sampdoria and Perugia.
“I am honored to be taking on Ethiopia's most successive football club” .He added that there is a great gap between Ethiopia and West African countries but we will work to minimize this gap. Dossena told to reporters.”
Regarding the football history of Ethiopia Dossena said, “I am not a magician. I cannot change everything. But I am part of this project, together we can change. Again I am happy to be here.”

Dossena started a managing career at international level, coaching Ghana for two years (1998–2000), and then being assistant of Cesare Maldini in Paraguay's appearance at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He worked as an analyst for Italian public broadcasting company. (RAI)

Structurally the club will have a coach and two assistances one from Italy, Danielo and the well known Ethiopian footballer and former assistance of Mitcho, Dagnachew continues with his job.

The golden and olden boys of St. George like Fasil Tekalegn will now be given a new role in the coaching staff, as the main link between the academy at Debreziet, Addis Ababa and the senior squad at Addis.
The payment expense for the coaches will be covered by sponsors (52%) and 48% from the fans.

Hopefully, with this squad St. Gorge keeps on making its own golden history in the national premier league and renewed its records in CECAFA and African champion’s league. “When the tough get going the going get tough.”

Ethiopia finishes 9th in African Athletics Championships

Ethiopia had to settle for 9th place in the just concluded 2010 African Athletics Championships held in Nairobi, Kenya. Ethiopia's sole gold medal was won by Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba in the 10,000m race finishing in 31 minutes, 51.39 seconds. Ethiopia had a total of nine medals with 1 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze, which places it as 9th overall in the medal table. Host nation Kenya tops the medal table with 25 medals including 10 gold medals, the best showing of any country.

Ethiopia was with out its world and Olympic champion Kenenisa Bekele, who did not compete due to injuries.

More than 700 athletes from 53 African countries took part. Nigeria finished second with 18 medals and South Africa was third with 9 medals.

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba celebrates AFP

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba wins women's 10,000m

Source: AFP

NAIROBI — Double Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba restored Ethiopia's track pride when she won the women's 10,000m at the African athletics championships here on Saturday.

The 24-year-old proved she has overcome the injuries that decimated her entire 2009 season when she lead compatriot Meselech Melkamu to gold and silver - the two precious medals that have eluded Ethopia in this competition.

Dibaba won in a relatively slow time of 31min 51.39sec while Melkamu, the world silver-medallist, clocked 31:55.50.

Kenya's world champion Linet Masai, who did all the front running only to be overtaken by the two Ethiopians on the bell, took the bronze medal in 31:59.36.

The Kenyan, however, took her defeat graciously.

"I think I have to go back and work on my finishing kick - that's why I came third," said Masai, who added that she lacked team tactics after her team-mates Doris Changeiywo and Pauline Korikwiang fell way behind after the trio made their move halfway through the race.

The Ethiopian success, coming days after their men lost the 10,000m race to the Kenyans, silenced the capacity home crowd rooting for a Masai victory to keep the pressure on defending champions South Africa in the medals hunt.

But the South Africans, bouyed by three field medals and a track bronze in the men's 110 metres hurdles, took their total tally to 16 to top the standings, going into the final day of competition on Sunday.

South Africa cemented their domination in the women's javelin with defending champion Sunette Viljoen taking gold ahead of compatriot Justine Robbeson.

Viljoen threw of 63.33 metres, while Robbeson achieved 60.24 and Egypt's Ramada Hassan taking bronze with 55.14.

Nigeria's Oke Tosin won the men's triple jump to take his team's gold medal tally to five for a total of 11 medals, to put them joint second with Kenya.

Team Ethiopia

Kenya, Ethiopia showdown looms at the Africa championships

Source: KBC

Kenya and Ethiopia are set to renew their legendary rivalry during the 17th CAA African Senior Athletics Championships that got underway on Wednesday at the Nyayo National stadium.

Over the years, the two East African neighbours have dominated long distance running globally in a show of rivalry akin to that of Jamaica and America in the sprints.

In fact it is whispered that the two nations contributed highly to the diminished interest among nations in the World Cross Country Championships that they dominated like the proverbial colossus and which has since assumed biennial status.

The women's 10,000-meter race is a must-watch event that will pit Olympic Champion Tirunesh Dibaba against World Champion Linet Masai.

Masai won the event in Berlin in the absence of the Ethiopian running machine who skipped the championships due to an injury.

The 5,000m women's race will also be a crowd puller that will pit the Kenyan trio led by world champion Vivian Cheruiyot against Dibaba, who will double, and former world champion Meseret Defar.

These two events will have the making of World or Olympic Championship clashes as it is the same runners who race against each other in the finals of the international events.

In the absence of Olympic and World Champion Kenenisa Bekele, the men's 5,000m will be a clash between the battle-hardened former world champion Eliud Kipchoge against Kenenisa's younger brother Tariku Bekele.

Ethiopia playing with Morocco 2008 File Photo

Ethiopia plunges to 146th place in the latest FIFA rankings

nazret.com - According to the latest FIFA World Football ranking, Ethiopia has plunged to 146th place, dropping 23 places from the previous ranking. This is the worst ranking for team Ethiopia since 2004. The lowest FIFA ranking for Ethiopia was in December 2001, when it was ranked 155th in the world and the Highest ranking in 1992 when Ethiopia was ranked 85th in the world.

Spain is ranked the best team in the World with Netherlands, Brazil, Germany, and Argentina completing the top 5 spots. Uruguay is ranked 6th. Egypt takes the top spot in Africa and ranking 9th in the world, Ghana is second place with Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Algeria ranking in the top 5.

Ethiopia faces Guinea for African Cup of Nations qualifier on September 3, 2010, in Addis Ababa stadium. Ethiopia is in Group B for 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifier with Nigeria(30th), Guinea (101) and Madagascar (144). The last time Ethiopia qualified for African Cup of Nations was in 1982.

Despite being a founding member of African football confederation, success in football has been elusive for the Walyas. The golden age of Ethiopian football was in the 60's when Ethiopia won the African cup of nations in 1962.

Top 15 in the World

Top 15 in Africa

Bottom 15 in Africa