81 booters for nat'l teams called
The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) yesterday picked 81 footballers for four different squads for the training camp in an effort to strengthen the national teams ahead of various international engagements.
The Red Team, which includes most of the players who represented Bangladesh in last year's SAFF Championship in India, is being considered as the prominent squad. Syed Golam Jilani and Jabid Hossain Apu have been appointed coaches of the Red Team.
The team dubbed Green Team is basically the National A squad which includes players with experience of international matches, but currently not in the reckoning for the national team. Ahsan Ullah Montu and Nurul Haque Manik will train Green squad.
A third squad named Yellow Team features players aged between 20 and 23 while a fourth squad named the White Team has been designed for the players aged between 18 and 20.
Mahbub Hossain Roxy and Mahbub Rahman Litu will look after the Yellow Team while Abdur Razzak and Kazi Altaful Haque will train the White Team.
All the selected players have been requested to report to their respective coaches on August 25 and a 10-day training camp which will get underway the following day.
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