Booters to fly to Nepal on Mar 18

The Bangladesh national football team will fly for Nepal on March 18 for the tri-nation tournament, Bangladesh Football Federation's (BFF) general secretary Abu Nayeem Shohag informed yesterday.

The BFF official also said that captain Jamal Bhuiyan will join the squad three or four days after being released by Kolkata Mohammedan Sporting Club on March 18.

"Even though commercial flight operations with Nepal have not started yet due to the pandemic, we have been assured by Biman Bangladesh Airlines that flights will start operating in the middle of this month. So the team will fly for Nepal on March 18," Shohag told reporters at the BFF office.

"Following our letter, Kolkata Mohammedan have informed us that Jamal Bhuiyan will be released on March 18. So he might reach Nepal on March 21 or 22, depending on flight availability, either straight from Kolkata or via Dhaka," Shohag added.The three group marches of the tri-nation tournament involving Bangladesh, Nepal and Kyrgyzstan U-23 team will be held at the Dasarath Stadium in Kathmandu on March 23, 25 and 27. The top two teams will meet in the final on March 29. The BFF spokesman informed that given possession of negative Covid certificates from Dhaka, the squad members will be allowed to start training immediately upon reaching Kathmandu with no quarantine requirements.

He also informed that Ivan Razlog will join the team camp in Dhaka as fitness trainer and Les Cleevely will fly from UK to Nepal to join as goalkeeping coach for this particular assignment.