Yared first came to Poland in 1999 to represent his native Ethiopia at the 1999 World Youth Championships which were held in Bydgoszcz. He competed in the 400 metres, going out in the semifinals. Since Ethiopia was at the time in the middle of the war with Eritrea, he decided to defect for fear of being conscripted. The first year and a half in the new country, he spent in a center for immigrants. In his trainings, he moved up from the sprints to the middle-distances. In 2004 he beat a long-standing Polish record in the indoor 3000 metres. In the same distance he came third at the 2005 European Cup. Soon, however, his results stagnated and he lost the support from the Polish Athletics Federation. Due to a difficult financial situation, he decided to migrate to England where he worked in a warehouse near Birmingham. At the time he stopped training almost completely.