Expat booters' for B. League

British-Bangladeshi footballers are set to try out for next season's B. League teams, according to the founder chief executive of Britain-based London Tigers organisation.
Mesba Ahmed, who is part of a British-Muslim delegation visiting the country, informed this at a discussion meeting with Abahani players and officials at their clubhouse yesterday. Mesba is accompanied by writer Rabina Khan, television personalities Konnie Huq and Tasnim Lucia Khan, Mohammad Bilal Abdullah and Abdul Quayam Khalique.
He informed that the footballers would be sent ahead of the country's only professional competition.
Mesba also informed that he is ready to help clubs in Bangladesh develop a youth programme.
"The youth are not respected. It's important that they get to play matches. Just give them a ground and they'll develop themselves without even technical help," said Mesba, who developed the first Bangladeshi-run semi-professional football club in West London.
Tasnim, a BBC Three news presenter, pitched the idea of televising football talent hunts. "I worked with Aston Villa four years ago and they showed the trial on television. It's something like Pop Idol, it can be called Football Idol," she said.
Abahani captain Arif Khan Joy, Biplob Bhattacharya and Shahajuddin Tipu were present among others.