Sellas Tetteh
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Sellas Tetteh Teivi | ||
Date of birth | 12 December 1956 | ||
Place of birth | Adabraka, Ghana | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Ghana U20 (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Great Mao Mao | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Golden Pods | |||
Hearts of Oak | |||
Zebi | |||
ACB | |||
Julius Berger | |||
Bendel United | |||
1994–1995 | Iwuanyanwu | ||
Managerial career | |||
1995–1996 | Kotobabi Powerlines | ||
1996–2001 | Liberty Professionals | ||
2001–2002 | Ghana U17 (Assistant) | ||
2002–2003 | Ghana U17 | ||
2003–2004 | Ghana U23 | ||
2004–2008 | Ghana (Assistant) | ||
2008 | Ghana | ||
2008–2010 | Ghana U20 | ||
2009–2010 | Liberty Professionals | ||
2010–2011 | Rwanda | ||
2013– | Ghana U20 | ||
2015 | Sierra Leone | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Sellas Tetteh Teivi (born 12 December 1956) is a Ghanaian professional football coach and former player, currently in charge of Ghana U20.
Early and personal life
Sellas Tetteh Teivi was born on 12 December 1956 in Adabraka. His father was Mensah Teivi, a mechanic, and his mother was Elizabeth Dablah; he was the eldest of eight children.[1] He is married to Elizabeth Idun Teivi, with whom he has two children – a daughter called Precious Awefa Teivi and a son called Prince Kelvin Sowah Teivi.[1] Tetteh is a practising Christian.[1] He acknowledged God's role in Ghana's historic victory at the FIFA U-20 World Cup, saying prophetic insights from Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua helped him guide the team to success.[2]
Career
Playing career
Tetteh played professional club football in Ghana for Great Mao Mao, Golden Pods, Hearts of Oak, Zebi; in Nigeria for ACB, Julius Berger, Bendel United and Iwuanyanwu; and in Bangladesh.[1]
Coaching career
Tetteh began his coaching career in 1995 with Kotobabi Powerlines, before joining Liberty Professionals a year later.[1] Tetteh became Assistant Manager of the Ghana under-17 team in 2001 – taking full control a year later – before moving to the Ghana under-23 team in 2003. He later became an Assistant to the full national team.[1] He was appointed caretaker manager of the Ghanaian national team in June 2008,[3] a position he held until August 2008.[4] Tetteh was appointed manager of the Rwandan national side in February 2010, leaving his dual position as manager of the Ghana under-20 national team and Ghanaian club side Liberty Professionals.[5] Tetteh guided the Ghana under-20 team to the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, becoming the first African team to win the competition.[6] As a consequence, Tetteh was nominated for the CAF Coach of the Year Award.[7] He was also honoured by veteran coach Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, who 'knighted' Tetteh.[8]
On 6 September 2011, Tetteh resigned as Rwanda's manager.[9]
Tetteh was again in charge of Ghana U20 at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[10]
On 14 August 2015, Tetteh was give a temporary contract for three months, to became caretaker of the Sierra Leone national team.[11]
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- 1956 births
- Living people
- Ghanaian footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Nigeria
- Ghanaian football managers
- Ghanaian expatriates in Nigeria
- Expatriate footballers in Bangladesh
- Ghanaian expatriates in Bangladesh
- Accra Hearts of Oak SC players
- Julius Berger F.C. players
- Heartland F.C. footballers
- Rwanda national football team managers
- Ghanaian expatriates in Rwanda
- Sierra Leone national football team managers
- Ghanaian expatriates in Sierra Leone
- Ghana national football team managers
- Ghanaian expatriate football managers
- Liberty Professionals F.C. managers