'BFF working on amicable parting'
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is moving towards ending the contract with national team's head coach Lodewijk de Kruif through an amicable solution, informed a high-official of the federation yesterday.
“Both the parties, BFF and de Kruif are preparing documents so that we can mutually end the contract through an amicable solution,” said Tabith M Awal, vice-president and member of National Team's Committee of BFF after emerging from a meeting between de Kruif and the federation president Kazi Salahuddin at the BFF office yesterday afternoon.
De Kruif returned from Netherland in the early hours of Sunday and received a show-cause notice from the BFF a day after federation president had announced their decision not to continue with the Dutch coaches. The Dutch coach is expected to send his reply to the show-cause notice by tonight.
“The coach has been served a show cause notice and we will continue the legal procedure of ending the contract after taking the reply of the show-cause letter into consideration. The whole process may take around 30 days,” Tabith apprised reporters after the meeting.
“However the coach has already been relived off his duties and Saiful Bari Titu has been given the charge of the national team for the two FIFA Friendly matches against Sri Lanka later this month,” added Tabith.
Tabith also informed that since both the parties decided to solve the issue between themselves, there was no need for either party to take the matter to the world football's governing body FIFA.
The assistant coach Rene Koster, who did not return from Netherlands, has also been served a show-cause notice on the same day as de Kruif. A BFF official informed that they would take a decision on him separately after receiving his reply.
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