Welcome to the newly expanded EthioSports.com!
EthioSports (www.ethiosports.com) is an Ethiopian-American Business, Lifestyle, Sports & Tourism Magazine created in Oregon, USA.
EthioSports was created in 1999 primarily as a sports news website covering Ethiopian Soccer, Athletics & Cycling. While we are satisfied with what we’ve accomplished, we feel that we can serve our diverse visitors better if we expand our news coverage to other sections besides sports. So, it is with this in mind that we added the following new sections in 2012:
- Business
- Education
- Entertainment
- Health
- Hospitality
- Lifestyle
- Restaurants
- Tourism
- Travel
Website Growth
Our website has shown tremendous growth over the years, where our daily news is now indexed in Google News, helping us to attract the following numbers* in 2011:
- 146,340 Unique Visitors
- 280, 239 Visits
- 673,040 Page Views
- 87% of our visitors came from outside Ethiopia, with the great majority from North America and Europe.
* Based by Google Analytics.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Contact Us:
Mamo Gebrehiwot, Founder & Publisher - mamo@ethiosports.com
News & Press Releases: news@ethiosports.com
Partners: partners@ethiosports.com
Advertise: advertise@ethiosports.com
Thank you
Mamo Gebrehiwot, Founder & Publisher
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FOUNDER
Founder & Managing Editor- Mamo Gebrehiwot
Mamo Gebrehiwot is an Ethiopian/American Sports Consultant with extensive business and sports background.
Education:
B.A. in Business Administration with emphasis in Accounting- San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
Sports Background:
Mamo played for Electric Football Club’s reserve team, one of Ethiopia’s leading soccer clubs but his playing career was cut short due to a nagging knee injury. Undeterred by the setback, he used his love for the sport and his language skills to pursue a career as a sport journalist with the English daily “Ethiopian Herald”, which gave him the opportunity to meet and interview some of Africa’s leading soccer stars, athletes, coaches and officials.
Following his move to the United States, where he received a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from San Jose State University, Mamo worked as a Credit analyst and Auditor for Silicon Valley Bank for seven years. Despite his striving career, he left the banking world to pursue a career in sports.
He has, since then, worked as an independent sports consultant working with the Ethiopian Athletics and Football Federations, founded soccer-africa.com, an online magazine (folded in 2000) and Ethiosports.com, which was mentioned as one of the world’s 100 Best Soccer Sites by Soccer America magazine (July 3, 2000).
Languages Skills:
Amharic (Ethiopian), French and English
He currently resides in Aloha, Oregon, where he can be reached at: mamo@ethiosports.com
Mamo with some of the World’s Greatest Sports Personalities
- Mamo with England’s 1966 World Cup winner & Manchester United superstar
- Sir Bobby Charlton (left), France’s 1984 European Champion & current UEFA President
- Michel Platini (center), CAF President Issa Hayatou and 2010 Southe Africa’s World
- Cup Organizing Committee President, Danny Jordan
- Mamo with Ethiopia’s greatest athlete Haile Gebrselassie (left), Germany’s World
- Cup winner and current US national soccer team coach Jurgen Klinsman (center)
- and England’s 1966 World Cup hat-trick hero Geoff Hurst
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EthioSports
EthioSports.com has over the years interviewed some of Ethiopia’s greatest athletes like
Haile Gebrselassie & Kenenisa Bekele, and worked with & assisted:
- Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF)
- Ethiopian Athletics’ Federation (EAF)
- National Ethiopian Cycling Federation (NECF)
- Ethiopian Ju Jitsu Association
- Confederation of Africaine Football (CAF)
- International Amateur Athletics Federations (IAAF) and
- A great number of individuals (Ethiopians & others) and NGOs
EthioSports’ contribution to Ethiopian sports is not limited to just reporting news & information, as it has:
- Provided running shoes to young Ethiopian runners
- Organized & financed a cycling championship (bearing its name) in 1999 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, which was attended by 20,000 cycling enthusiasts. The competition was covered by all Ethiopian media - print, radio & TV.
- Assisted a number of individuasl & organizations and much more.
