VANNES, FRANCE – AUGUST 08: Referee Lidya Tafesse Abebe during the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup France 2018, France. (Photo by Alex Grimm – FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)
Lidya Tafese, a former renowned international referee, has been appointed as a member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) Referees’ Committee.
Lidya,the Deputy Chairperson of the Ethiopian National Referees Committee, has been selected to join the newly structured 12-member committee formed by CAF.
She was the first female Ethiopian to referee at an international game outside of her country. She was also the first female Ethiopian to be a referee at the World Cup.
Lidya also serves as a CAF Referees Instructor.
Girmachew Kebede
(Story from EFF)
Girmachew Kebede
Founder of Tilafok.com, Girmachew Kebede is a sports journalist with more than a decade of newsroom and on-air experience. He served as Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Ethio-Sport newspaper, was host and News Editor for the Bisrat Sport radio show, and worked as a football analyst with Kuas Meda. He co-created the Rigore sports show. He was also sports and political stringer for Voice of America’s Horn of Africa Service. His articles were selected among the Top 10 in Africa by the AIPS Sport Media Awards in 2018 and 2022.
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