Sellas Tetteh Teivi was born on December 12, 1956 at Adabraka a suburb of Accra.
He trained as an auto mechanic at the Royal Technical College in Nungua and developed an insatiable passion for football. Having featured for Mao Mao at the colts level, he later moved to Koforidua Pods.
Nicknamed "Borbor" which connotes Charlie in the Yoruba language, he played for Hearts of Oak and Zebi FC founded by Daniel Boye Sowah.
After fruitful stints in Nigeria and Bangladesh, he delved into the enthralling world of coaching following his return to Ghana.
A brief spell with Kotobabi Powerlines owned by Yaw La Danso Addo of blessed memory paved the way for him to join Liberty Professionals formed in 1996 by late Ibrahim Sly Tetteh and Felix Amoah Ansong.
Following a spell with the Black Starlets, he assisted Ralf Zumdick as Ghana ended up in third place at the 2003 All Africa Games staged in Nigeria. As a result of his brilliance, he deputized Ratomir Dujkovic at the 2006 Mundial held in Germany.
He steered the Black Starlets to finish fourth at the 2007 Under-17 World Cup staged in South Korea.Under his tutelage, the Black Satellites cruised to victory in the 2008 WAFU Under-20 Championship and the CAF Under-20 Nations Cup held in Rwanda a year later.
The team also beat Brazil on penalties in the FIFA Under-20 World Cup Final with Dominic Adiyiah picking up both the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe Awards. His technical ingenuity guided Ghana to the 2013 CAF Under-20 Nations Cup Final where they lost cruelly on spotkicks to Egypt.
The team finished third at the 2013 FIFA Under-20 World Cup where Ebenezer Kofi Assifuah Inkoom grabbed the Golden Boot. The gaffer also had managerial stints with Rwanda and Sierra Leone. He succeeded David Dickson Ocloo as coach of Liberty Professionals in the 2021/2022 season.
Despite working in tandem with Andy Evans Sinason the team which nurtured household names in football such as Ransford Yaw Asamoah Gyan, Baffuor Gyan, John Paintsil, Emmanuel Addoquaye Pappoe, William Amamoo, Sulley Ali Muntari, Kwadwo Asamoah, Anthony Obodai, Michael Kafui Helegbe, Enoch Kofi Adu, Daniel Agyei and Latif Atta Blessing suffered relegation after joining the elite division in 1999.