By Reuters, Botswana wants 10 Eritrean soccer players it granted asylum to to be resettled in another country by the United Nations, as under Bostwana’s law they must stay in a refugee camp for 10 years. A government official said the southern African nation was not withdrawing asylum for the players but giving them a […]
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By Mike Seium | For Eri-International Sport, In 1996 the Eritrean soccer federation officially was founded even though Eritrea had been playing in games against other nations since 1992. Like everything else in Eritrea the development of a world popular sport once hailed as Eritrea’s national past time seems to have seen its ups and […]
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By Bereket Kidane, With the international soccer stars coming back to their ancestral land to play for the Red Sea Camels, we may have just witnessed the beginning of reverse migration that we are sure going to see more of in the future. But don’t tell that to Mike Smith or Sheila Keetharuth. They will […]
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By Mike Seium | for Eri-International Sports, Most of us recall when the issue of whether Natnael “Nat” Berhe was Eritrean or not became a topic on Twitter last year after Nat Berhe was drafted by the NFL’s NY Giants. Eri-International sports caught up with Nat recently while he recovers from a very painful calf […]
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By Bereket Kidane, The wait is over. Henok Goitom, the star center forward, and seven other players of Eritrean origin with dual nationalities will make their debut for Eritrea’s national soccer team “the Red Sea Camels” on Saturday against Botswana for the first leg of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia qualifying match in Asmara. The […]
Continue ReadingBy Simon Tesfamariam, ON May 22, 2014, James Montague penned an article in the New York Times entitled “A National Team Without a Country,” which recounts the two year journey of 18 players on Eritrea’s national soccer team as they migrate from Uganda to the Netherlands. Notably, publication of the article falls just two days […]
Continue ReadingBy Agencies, Over the past week the New York Giants draft class have officially begun signings. From the start of free agency the Giants budget has always been the center of attention. This year they were able to make decent picks based on the $133 million they had to spend. The Giants made Berhe their first […]
Continue ReadingBy Paul Schwartz, You may or may not be able to tell a man by his tweets, but in Nat Berhe’s case, two tweets he shot off right after he was taken by the Giants in the fifth round of the NFL Draft were revealing.. His first was a simple question: “First Eritrean in the NFL?” […]
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