BHF’s new committee has ambitious plans
The Bangladesh Hockey Federation’s (BHF) newly-elected general secretary Mominul Haque Shaeed yesterday said the federation plans to host a multinational tournament in Dhaka next year, marking the birth centenary of the father of the nation, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
“We plan to hold an invitational international tournament and a divisional tournament next year,” Shaeed told reporters after the first executive committee meeting, with the BHF president Air Chief Marshal Masihuzzaman Serniabat in chair, at the BHF headquarters yesterday.
“Today we discussed our future plans and exchanged views for a time-bound action plan,” said Shaeed while highlighting plans on local and international hockey leagues, tournaments and training facilities for the players.
The committee is set to hold the AGM after Eid [June].
The federation will introduce indoor hockey and run a camp hiring an Iranian coach at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP) or at the Maulana Bhasani Hockey Stadium in July, the BHF spokesman added.
Besides, the new committee has a plan to arrange a franchise-based league with local teams, a women’s league at divisional level and run the school hockey tournament across the country with more than a hundred teams.
Meanwhile, the players’ transfer window for the second division league will conclude within May and the league is expected to roll on the ground in June, informed Shaeed.
The federation president Masihuzzaman Serniabat hoped that hockey will flourish through the action of the new committee and urged all to perform their respective duties sincerely.
“From now on, a new era begins in Bangladesh hockey. I believe hockey will thrive with the new committee,” Serniabat said after formally handing over the charge to the new general secretary.
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