The women’s team excelled once again, winning their second successive SAFF Women’s Championship title, while the men’s team remained stuck in mediocrity. Age-level teams found success at SAFF level while Bashundhara Kings carried on with their domestic domination.
Neer not only claimed the national chess championship but also became the country’s youngest International Master.
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.
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.
The annual general meeting is a forum where delegates capitalise on the opportunity to reflect on the obstacles and achievements of the past year, and to voice their opinions on decisions that will affect the direction of the sport.
As the country is gradually stirring back to life amid the threat of the coronavirus, the country’s sports fraternity too seems to be preparing to wake up.
Social distancing and Covid-19 transmission are evidently not high on the list of concerns. For these workers, at an iron foundry in Shyampur, the most pressing issue in life is earning the basic living that would allow them to put food on the table back home.
Lack of professionalism in both the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) and the clubs, combined with the dysfunction in the Football Players’ Welfare Association (FPWA) has seemingly paved the way to the unpleasant decision of big pay cuts of footballers in the upcoming season, expected to start in December.
The Daily Star (DS): You are contesting for the president’s post of Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) for a fourth successive term. What has prompted you to run again?
“Football is now a platform for fake organisers to draw cheap publicity,” Manzoor Hossain Malu lamented.
Despite little engagement at national and international stage last year and lower division competitions and youth development remaining irregular, the Bangladesh Football Federation’s administrative expenditure increased 30 percent in the last fiscal.
Asked why their relationship had suddenly deteriorated after running the federation in tandem for nearly six years, Nazimuddin and Intekhabul blamed each other.
