Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wani dan asalin lardin Bale, Habasha, ya zama mai sha'awar ra'ayin yin wasan tsere na sana'a bayan ya ga dan kasarsa Haile Gebrselassie ya doke Paul Tergat don lashe zinare a gasar Olympics ta Sydney ta 2000. Ya fara fafatawa a matakin kasa da kasa don kasarsa yana da shekaru 16 kuma ya lashe lambar azurfa ta mita 3000 a gasar zakarun duniya ta matasa a shekarar 2005, inda ya kammala a bayan Abreham Cherkos. A wannan Nuwamba ya yi gasa a Babban Gasar Habasha kuma ya gama na huɗu, yana saita mafi kyawun hanya mai nisan kilomita 10 na 28:45.99. A shekara mai zuwa ya dauki matsayi na biyar a tseren matasa a gasar zakarun duniya ta 2006 IAAF
, yana taimakawa matasa 'yan Habasha, wanda Tariku Bekele ya jagoranta, zuwa lambar azurfa ta tawagar. Nasara a kan waƙar ya biyo baya ba da daɗewa ba lokacin da ya lashe taken Habasha a cikin mita 10,000, ya doke Tadesse Tola, sannan ya lashe zinare a wannan taron a gasar zakarun duniya na matasa na 2006 a wasannin motsa jiki. Ya shiga cikin mita 10,000 a Memorial van Damme a Brussels kuma ya kasance na huɗu a cikin babban filin wasa, yana kafa mafi kyawun matasan duniya na 27:02.81 a cikin tsari.