Basic training before Suhrawardi Cup
The Bangladesh Football Federation is planning to provide basic training to each of the participating districts before starting the Suhrawardi U-18 Football Championship, which was supposed to get underway today after a nine-year gap.
“We want to hold a fruitful tournament after providing basic training to the district teams as there has been no regular football activities at district level,” said BFF vice president Badal Roy, who is also chairman of the BFF development committee.
“The Development Committee has showed interest to be involved with the tournament because the committee believes if the upcoming players are given basic training, the tournament will be competitive and the players for upcoming AFC U-19 Championship Qualifiers can be picked easily from across the country,” Roy said adding that the BFF Competition Committee also accepted the proposal.
The veteran football official further informed that appointed BFF coaches will conduct a 15-day training at each district and then select a 30-member squad after scrutinising age of the players and later the district coaches will work for another 15 days with the selected squads to prepare the boys for the tournament.
The former national footballer said that they have suggested holding the tournament on league basis instead of knockouts so that the footballers get more space to show their worth in the tournament.
The BFF Competition Committee has already estimated a budget of Tk one crore as the participating teams are supposed to be provide Tk 50,000 each for all the expenditure including initial training.
“As there are some new proposals, we have to prepare another budget which is expected to be completed tomorrow [Thursday] after a meeting with the BFF president and the chairman of the finance committee,” said BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag, who also informed that they have also put this tournament in FIFA Forward programme which has not yet been approved by the World game's governing body.
“We could not start the tournament on time as per calendar, but we will be able to complete the tournament within two months' timeframe mentioned in the calendar,” said Shohag.
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