# Ibrahim Mohamed Hersi (Ibraahim Maxamed Hirsi)

> Ibrahim Mohamed Hersi (1944-2020): Horseed player and Somalia national team coach, 1977 to 1979.

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## Who was he?

Ibrahim Mohamed Hersi was a Somali international footballer, born on 29 June 1944 in either Asmara, Eritrea, or Kassala, [Sudan](/en/diaspora/sudan/), who died on 14 March 2020 ([Wikipedia, Ibrahim Mohamed Hersi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mohamed_Hersi)).

## Player

His career began in Ethiopia with Saxil and Dugale, then EEPCo Addis Ababa and Red Sea Asmara, before he played in Sudan for Al-Taka Kassala and Al-Waha ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mohamed_Hersi)). He moved to Somalia in 1968, reportedly played for the Somali Police, and played for Horseed until he retired in 1978 (same source).

## Coach

He managed Horseed from 1976, while still playing, until 1980, and managed the Somalia national team between 1977 and 1979 ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mohamed_Hersi)).

## Later life

He fled to the United States in 1991 and settled in Minneapolis, where he married and had three children ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim_Mohamed_Hersi)). See [Somalis in Minneapolis–St Paul](/en/diaspora/minneapolis-st-paul/).

## In short

A Horseed player and Somalia's national coach in the late 1970s.

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