Camp derailed by poor communication

The Bangladesh Hockey Federation added more fuel to their own fire with poor internal coordination ensuring that there was a pitiful turnout of the national players for the Asian Games Qualifiers camp at the Maulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium yesterday.
Of the 25 players picked for the preliminary camp on Monday, only nine players reported to coaches Barkatullah Chapal and Abdullah Piru. Shockingly, most of them only learnt of their nomination after reading of it in the newspaper.
The qualifiers will get underway on May 7-15.
Forward Rasel Mahmud Jimmy, defender Asaduzzaman Chandan and goalkeeper Zahid Hossain admitted that they were not informed about the camp and they had come to report only after being informed by the coaches.
Midfielder Sheikh Mohammad Nannu said that he came to know about the camp after reading it online in a newspaper early Tuesday.
Moshiur Rahman Firoz had come to visit Dhaka from Barisal on Tuesday morning and he learnt about his inclusion through a newspaper and came to report at 6:20 pm, some three hours after the reporting time.
Coach Chapal said some of the players had informed by phone that they would join the camp from today.
Asked whether he himself had been informed, a smiling Chapal said that he got a message through email.
"It was not right that we did not inform the players and at the moment most of the players have come to the federation," said BHF joint secretary Abdur Rashid Shikdar yesterday evening, when contacted over phone.
BHF general secretary Khondoker Jamiluddin expressed his surprise after hearing the fact from the reporters and termed it as a 'mismanagement.'
The games governing body has also included two players -- Ashikur Rahman and Zahidul Islam Rajon -- in the 25-member squad.