Bangabandhu, Bangamata Gold Cup finals today
The finals of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup and Bangamata Fazilatunnesa Mujib Gold Cup primary school football tournaments will be held at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka today. Claimed by the organisers as the largest football tournaments in the world, these two knock-out format tournaments have produced players for the age-level national teams and those to be competing at the big bowl today are expected to be future stars.
A press conference ahead of the two finals was held at the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) House where coaches, managers and captains of the four teams spoke about their journey so far and the targets in the finals.
The final of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup will be contested between Toitong Govt Primary School of Pekua, Cox's Bazar and Kamrangi Govt Primary School of Jointapur, Sylhet. However, the captain and the coach of the school from Cox's Bazar alleged that the school from Sylhet had fielded four over-age players in the tournament so far. While they claimed to have submitted a complaint with the BFF against the opposition, they fear that if the over-age players are fielded in the final, it will turn into a 'father against son' affair.
The representatives of the organisers, the ministry for mass and primary education, replied that they would be working on the complaint and that they would try to enforce the age-limit, which is supposed to be 12 years or below, more rigorously from next year.
In the final of the Bangamata Fazilatunnesa Mujib Gold Cup, Borobaria Govt Primary School of Rajshahi will take on Tepurgari BK Govt. Primary School of Lalmonirhat. The coach of Tepurgarui BK School hoped that they could maintain their perfect defensive record up to the final and take the trophy to North Bengal while the coach of the Barabaria school team also expressed his confidence of winning the title.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will distribute prizes among the winners after witnessing the final matches.
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