Controversy After Death
In January 2006, 19 years after Ydnekatchew's death, Koraonline, the official football magazine of Egypt 2006 criticised Ydnekatchew of being a dictator in charge of African sport. The article stated: "Yidnekatchew Tessema was elected in Cameroon 1972, to rule African Football with an iron hand for 15 years." Further, on Egypt's 2006 official site, instead of Ydnekatchew, they recorded that a Serbian coach by the name of Milosevic was the winning coach for Ethiopia instead of Ydnekatchew.
However, in team photos and clippings from that tournament, there is no sight of any European or foreigner among the Ethiopian players, and Ydnekatchew (who appears in many of the clippings himself) wearing a medal from that tournament.
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