Manzoor Hossain Malu, who was named head of a three-member National Team Management Committee (NTMC) yesterday, confirmed this to reporters.

The other members of the revised NTMC are BFF general secretary Anwarul Hoque Helal and Anwar Hossain Ujjal.

The decision was taken in BFF's executive committee meeting yesterday morning.

The NTMC was officially non-existent after its five-member committee headed by Kazi Salahuddin stepped down last year following a dispute with the football bosses.

The cash-starved BFF hardly has any chance to lure a foreign coach to take over the national team, that have been managed by locals after departure of Argentine coach Diego Cruciani.

The fact that former Indian international Nayeemuddin, who helped his country regain the SAFF title beating archrivals Bangladesh in Pakistan in 2005, is involved with local club Brothers Union perhaps inspired the federation to go for the wily coach.

Nayeemuddin, who also coached Brothers three years back, has a vast knowledge about regional football and is renowned for getting out the best within limitations.

BFF also gave its vice president Abdur Rahim the responsibility to realise inside seven days the scopes of staging Federation Cup, National League and the Dhaka Senior Division League.

The BFF, meanwhile, has decided to send a second string national side under the banner of A team to the Nehru Cup, which will be held in Delhi from August 16-28 and the Borduloi Trophy in Assam.

Bayezid Zobair Nipu was named under-16 coach while Mahbub Hossain Roxy his assistant.

The 22 third division clubs will receive Tk 25,000 each from the federation which will also bear expenses of the Bhutan women's football team, due to train in Dhaka for two weeks this month.