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Ethiopia Football Federation engulfed in crisis

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Why doesn’t Dr Ashebir Woldegiorgis respect the will of EFF’s general assembly and instead focus on improving his dental clinics in Addis Ababa that are known for their poor service and high prices?

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BBC News

FIFA has confirmed that it will not send a delegation to a meeting on Saturday to restore sanity within the Ethiopia Football Federation (EFF). This means the internal wrangling which has affected the EFF for the past three months is set to continue. Fifa will not ratify the event because EFF boss Dr Ashebir Woldegiorgis has not been allowed access to his office.

“The president’s denial to the headquarters cannot be seen as a return to normalcy,” Fifa said in a statement.

The meeting is part of the road-map to normalize the problems within the EFF.

The EFF’s general assembly fired Woldegiorgise in January for what they said was the “dismal” record of Ethiopian football and elected Ahmed Yasin to replace him.

However, the January meeting was not recognised by Fifa who met both parties to find a solution.

Fifa and the Confederation of African Football (Caf) released the road-map last month which was agreed by both parties.

The road-map said that Dr Woldegiorgis and his executive committee are the only leadership that Fifa and Caf would recognise but that an extraordinary meeting of the EFF should be held on 29 March.

The agenda of the meeting would simply be a “motion of dismissal” of the current executive committee.

According to the EFF statutes, for this motion to be approved it would have to supported by two-thirds of the valid votes cast by the official delegates in a secret ballot.

8 thoughts on “Ethiopia Football Federation engulfed in crisis”

  1. This crazy guy by the name Asheber, a graduate from the former USSR, has started “sheber” in Ethiopian Football Federation since 1991. He is the one who fired Garziato, the French national who successfuly coached the Ethiopian Youth Soccer team in the interantional competition that took place in Argentina(This is the only time that our soccer team goes this far). When Garziato returned to Ethiopia with the team, this crazy guy, with his colleagues, criticize Garziato with a Woyane style “gimegema” and fired him. This crazy guy is the one who tried to buy the refrees of Uganda and Ethiopian teams that played for the East African competition just two years ago; He is a disgrace to the International image of the Ethiopian Football Federation. He has about three dental clinics in Ethiopia(Don, Almeta,Ab).Usually, advertisment/commercial is illegal/amoral in the medical profession all over the world. But this crazy guy is the one who started advertisments/commercials, through TV and radio, in the medical profession in Ethiopia. He is the one who is killing the Ethiopian socceer like Woyane which is killing the country. He must go!

  2. Hello Hannibal-Cannibal you are a person with out moral and ethicate.Some one can judge who you are,from your first phrases. Can you read at all?? If you can,first you should read a lot and try to learn. If you can understand what you read!!!! That is enough to you. Don’t give a commentar please,Peoples like you and me must learn too much. Let’s live the page for those who can teach a lot us. Learn also first Discipline(Gibre-geb) and then talk with peoples!!!You yourself looks like a man of ‘Kebele’ or ‘Kinet’ That’s why you and your friends are the first to give a Sh… commentary here. So keep cool man!!! OK?? This is not Zebega’s Kiosk.

  4. The problem with EFF is

    1) Ashebir (Shibir): He has to leave the Arena,why he didn’t do nothing good for the football. Let him concentrate on his business. The reason why he didn”t leave… simple, the EFF has a lot of money to be stolen.

    2) Abinet: He has to stop meddling in the football associations. He dreams to have a upper hand in every thing with a support from the sheik.

    Remove the above two and we will get peace.

  5. Please, I could not understand as to how and why the Dr. is insisting and the Weyane is allowing him to maintain his post unless both are working for the same goal. If it was with the interest of the woyane not to maintain the Dr. on the leadership the mafaia could send some tags to stop the Dr. hidding and abusing the rules and procidures of FIFA, which are intended to safegaurd national committees which are doing good. Ethiopians like football as much as their country – Ethiopia. You need to give up your post. Be aware that we are all disperate.

  6. Oh my: we’ve heard from 3rd parties about banking crisis and now EFF! how much of crisis did the weyane thugs brought to this beautiful and historical country along with them and how many more crisis are they going to be allowed to do so! People wake-up the after mass of weyane destruction will be felt for many generations to come if they continue with their slavery mentality!

  7. please try to understand what foot ball is . then you can comment. rule and regulations are a very important things I dont mean Dr.asheber or whom we dont know comes to power with his own objectives. so respecting FIFAs rule we can play the game. by the way who are our coaches? YELEMD AWALAJ sorry to say it. they are the one who plays these stuppid game. we should see all over the problems. if we need a real development. YEGULECHA MELEWAWET WET AYATAFETEM.

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