Roxy, eight young booters summoned
Coach Mahbub Hossain Roxy and eight U-19 footballers were verbally warned by the National Team Management Committee at the BFF House yesterday.
The accused coach and eight members of the camp were earlier expelled from the national camp by head coach Nikola Ilievski on Sunday.
Yesterday Roxy and the eight players were summoned before the NTMC and were asked to explain their apathy during the training.
“As part of disciplinary action, we have warned them not to repeat such misdemeanour in future,” said NTMC chairman Badal Roy.
Roxy said there was a communication gap between him and Nikola, who had ordered him to train the eight players. However, the players lacked eagerness to train after being dropped from the warm-up game.
BFF vice president Roy also informed that NTMC would now take care of four teams U-19, U-21, U-22 and the national team -- in line with recommendations from head coach Nikola Ilievski.
“The four national teams will be kept in practice round the year and they will play warm-up matches among themselves,” said Roy adding that they would propose BFF executive committee to bring a trainer from abroad.
He also informed that three BFF coaches would be engaged in each of four teams while Nikola Ilievski would play the role of head coach to all four teams.
The national U-19 team has been training at BKSP for the AFC U-19 Qualifiers to be held in Bangladesh in October and the national U-21 team will be sent to BKSP for 10 days to play five practice matches against U-19.
Afterwards, the U-19 team will play another five practice matches against U-22 team which will also be geared up under the guidance of Ilievski.
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