Sabina and Co brace for international return

Bangladesh women's football team vowed to deliver a good show in the upcoming Qualifiers of the AFC Women's Asian Cup in Uzbekistan this month as the girls in red and green are all set to return to the international arena after a two-year gap since the SAFF Women's Championship in Nepal in 2019.

The outbreak of coronavirus in early 2020 saw some international engagements cancelled but they played the Women's Football League twice during this period.

The charges of Golam Rabbani Choton are now looking forward to playing two international friendlies against their Nepalese counterparts on September 9 and 12 in Pokhara before heading to Uzbekistan to play two Group G matches of the Asian Cup Qualifiers against Jordan and Iran on September 19 and 22 in Tashkent respectively.

"The girls have been training since July 24 and they are now in good shape and in the mood to deliver. Our benefit is that this group has been together for a long time and produced good results at the age level in the past." said head coach Choton at a press briefing yesterday.

Captain Sabina Khatun said, "I think there is a huge difference between domestic and international matches and the experience of playing the women's league won't help us a lot. Rather, I think two friendly matches against the Nepal national team will help us find out our weakness and fix it before playing the matches against Jordan and Iran."