Former Alabama A&M professor Salah Yousif, who launched Bulldogs national championship soccer program, dies in Ethiopia

Coach Salah Yousif

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Salah Yousif, hired at Alabama A&M as an economics professor but later to become coach of two national championship (men's) soccer teams, has died in his native Ethiopia. Yousif, 77, was a college professor in Ethiopia at the time of his death. Sources said he died of an apparent heart attack on campus.

Yousif, who seven months ago suffered the loss of a son, died June 27, according to former co-workers at Alabama A&M.

Yousif won 238 games in 21 seasons as the A&M soccer coach and 50 in four seasons as soccer coach at Howard University.

His was a turbulent career at A&M, where he arrived in 1976 to ...

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