Ambesager Yosief

Ambesager Sium Yosief ( born June 29, 1984 Asmara ) is an Eritrean football players.

Biography

Yosief belonged in 2009 to levy of the Eritrean national soccer team at the CECAFA Cup 2009 in Kenya. The only recently assembled team reached the quarter-finals but surprising, but it lost to Tanzania with 0:4. Before the upcoming Return to put twelve national team, including Yosief, as in a pre- planned action from the national team. Eleven of the twelve fugitive players stayed together and requested the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations in Nairobi asylum. This was granted to the athletes, and after eight months was carried out in a special security area in the Kakuma refugee camp for Yosief, Nevi Ghebremeskez, Alemayo Kebede, Samuel Tesfagabr, Yonatan Goitum, Mehari Shinash, Ermias Tekle, Ermias Haile, Jemal Abdu, Testfaldet Goitom and Bruk ASRES the leaving the Australian Adelaide.

All eleven footballers has been recognized by the Australian Government as a refugee and received permanent residence permits. To better integrate the players were housed at four clubs in the region in the semi-professional FFSA Super League. Yosief, who found a job as a factory worker, was assigned to the Western Strikers and came to the club in the 2011 season in 18 league games (one goal ) for use and also worked with the profit of the FFSA Coca -Cola Federation Cup 2011. His achievements, which taught him the votes for league player of the year to third place, also made sure interest from the professional sector and in September 2011 he moved like his teammates Tesfagabr to the A- League club Gold Coast United. As recognized refugees both did not count to the already exhausted foreigners quota and signed respectively a one-year contract. The central defender made ​​his debut in the highest Australian League 30 October 2011 as a substitute against Newcastle United Jets ( Full 3:1), in the following months he came to two other member inserts, but was, in particular, after the match against Sydney FC ( Full 2:3 ) of coach Miron Bleiberg criticized when he, the match-winning penalty inflicted in the final minute, acting on the unfamiliar left-back position for him. After the owner of Gold Coast United, the license had been revoked in early 2012 and the team finished the season under the leadership of the Australian Association, the team was disbanded at the end of the season.