Day signs two-year extension

Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) retained the services of Jamie Day as head coach of the national team for the next two years.

The 40-year-old British national signed the contract online yesterday, just over a month after his previous contract expired on May 15.

However, the two-year contract with Jamie will come into the effect two months later, from August 14, as BFF wants Jamie to resume work from the middle of August following the coronavirus pandemic that forced FIFA and AFC to suspend its World Cup and Asian Cup qualifiers campaigns, as well as club competitions while the various football associations also halted their domestic competitions.

"I just want to confirm I have agreed to a new two-year deal as the head coach and am really looking forward to working with BFF again. I am obviously excited about getting back and working with the national team players," Jamie said in a video message sent by the BFF yesterday.

"I am now looking to developing and progressing further as a national team. We have four tough games [of World Cup and Asian Cup Qualifiers] in October and November but ones we are really looking forward to, and I can't wait to get back with the boys in the camp and get them fit and ready for the games," added Jamie, who has been in charge of the boys in red and green for the last two years on the basis of one-year contracts.

Ahead of the World Cup Qualifiers, Jamie wants to start the national camp from August 22. "It's an exciting year. I'm looking forward with delight now that we have agreed to a new deal and now hopefully we can get ball rolling to get the players back [into football] and have a really good year with results," said Jamie.

"We have signed a contract with Jamie on a virtual [platform] and the contract remains almost the same as last year's contract, but the vacations have been reduced in the new one," said BFF general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag , adding that the national teams committee will sit today to discuss the different issues.