Three ‘Abahani players’suspended
Three footballers -- Raihan Hasan, Sohel Rana and Mohammad Sohel Rana -- have been handed injunction over playing for any club in the 2019-2020 season by a High Court division bench after Sheikh Russel KC filed a First Miscellaneous Appeal against those three players after being rejected at a District Judge Court.
On December 18, a High Court bench passed an order of injunction, restricting the three players from playing for any club other than Sheikh Russel for competitions organised by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF).
Due to the instruction, those three players, who are currently wiith Abahani, will miss the ongoing Federation Cup even though all of them were part of Abahani’s 4-0 win over Bangladesh Police in their opening match.
The BFF sent the court injunction to Abahani after receiving a copy of the court order on December 18, the day Abahani played their first match of the Federation Cup.
“These three players have taken money from us regarding which we have all the documents, but they have signed for another club. We went to court to give a lesson to the players, who do such things every season. Our fight is against the players, not against Abahani,” Sheikh Russel director of sports Saleh Jamal Selim said yesterday. He also said that these players did not even return the money they took initially from the club.
“We received the copy of injunction from the BFF. We have informed our higher authority about the issue and they will take decision,” Abahani manager Satyajit Das Rupu said, adding that those three players played the first match after getting clearance from BFF’s players’ status committee.
Relying to a query, Rupu said, “Yes, these three players will miss the next matches but I believe we have alternative for them at the bench and it won’t hurt us much.”
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