Mohammad Moynul Islam Munna, a Bangladeshi coach who has carved out a career in Malaysia, hardly had a moment to spare as he shuffled from court to court, giving instructions to his Malaysian students who are taking part in ongoing Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in Paltan.
For Polina, ranked 69th in the world, the emotional toll of the war remains immense.
As the Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge (YBIC) 2024 begins today, participants from 13 nations converge at Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Indoor Stadium in Dhaka. However, the country’s shuttlers are surprisingly entering the ranking tournament without optimum preparation.
Farashganj SC and Uttara FC, teams that were relegated from the country’s second tier football competition the Bangladesh Championship League (BCL) last season, have been greenlit to compete in the upcoming season as well by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) – a development that highlights the absence of a proper structure at that level.
Samin also urged the authorities to arrange an open-top bus to celebrate their “truly memorable” achievement upon their arrival on Friday.
With a month and a half left to Javier Cabrera’s extended contract, the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is yet to take any decision whether to extend with the Spaniard or look for a replacement.
Mohammad Dipu has been a standout in the country’s wrestling, holding his ground not only in local village wrestling since a young age but also on the artificial mats at national championships for over a decade.
The Bangladesh Navy and Bangladesh Army dominated the recent national swimming championships, securing all 42 gold medals and leaving district and club teams, apart from BKSP and the Bangladesh Air Force, without any podium finishes.
The long-standing demand of footballers for a well-equipped gymnasium is likely to come true, but unfortunately at the expense of the green open lawn at the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) premises.
After a seven-year hiatus, the third edition of women’s football league just drew to a close on Sunday with the star-studded Bashundhara Kings becoming the new, undisputed champions, thanks to national forwards Sabina Khatun, Krishna Rani Sarkar and Tahura Khatun in their roster to make the key difference with other teams.
A group of talented girls unexpectedly stormed onto headlines in 2015 and their success, including advancing to the 2017 finals of AFC U-16 Women’s Championship, and brilliant performances have continued silently as the Tricotex Women’s Football League has failed to attract spectators in the new normal.
When news of Diego Armando Maradona’s passing filtered through on the night of November 25 in Bangladesh, the grief that took hold in the country was as if a mischievous, magnetic boy next door died and not a footballing genius who lived 10,000 miles away and imbued everything he touched with the brightest colours.
The supporters of Mohammedan SC don’t flock to the Motijheel-based tent of the Black and Whites to watch their favourite footballers like they once used to during the glory days of football. But today, the Mohammedan supporters once again gathered at the club tent, obviously not to see a new football sensation rather bid goodbye to the great Badal Roy.
The historical success stories of Bangladesh swimming and, by extrapolation, of Bangladesh sports, will remain incomplete without Mosharraf Hossain Khan, who is thecountry’s lone sportsman to grab five gold (100m butterfly, 200m butterfly,
“People of this generation may not believe it, but there was a time when I started the journey from Teroghada upazila at midnight and travelled the 34 kilometres to Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna on a rickshaw van, accompanied by my grandfather,” said former seven-time sprint champion Sultana Parveen Lovely.
Irregularity in staging lower division football leagues and district football leagues has been one of the major areas of criticism of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) President Kazi Salahuddin in his past three tenures.
A group of brilliant young footballers put Bangladesh prominently on the map of age-level women’s football, especially in South Asia, by clinching the first-ever AFC U-14 Girls’ Regional Championship in December 2015.
The newly elected Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) committee may not reflect the expectations of the general football fans, but the much talked-about polls produced nine new faces who are all set to work along long-serving BFF organisers, including four-time President Kazi Salahuddin for the next four years.
