Md Anwar Ullah, Dhaka: It’s just a one week left for the return of international football competition when Bangladesh national football team will take on Nepal in FIFA Friendly matches despite ongoing spoilsports played by coronavirus.
Nepal national football team is to land here in Dhaka by 11 am to 12 noon today (Thursday) when the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) all set to kick off the matches on November 13, as well as the two opponents are get ready and waiting with huge enthusiasm.
Now all the football lovers at least of two countries are eyeing to the moments to watch the ball rolling on the field where the pandemic played spoilsports forcing to halt all the football activities.
However, Bangladesh national football team, who played their last international match in early of January, 2020 in the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament are expecting to return into the circuit with these two FIFA friendly matches.
These two matches are not only significant as friendly exhibitions for Bangladesh national team but also as joint qualifying matches of FIFA World Cup 2022 and Asia Cup 2023.
So, Bangladesh booters are mostly seeing the matches as true dress-rehearsal for their World Cup and the Asia Cup qualifying affairs, prompting all the players, directors and the stage to be ready for demonstrating their performances.
The head coach of Bangladesh Jamie Day and the captain echoed the necessity of playing international friendly matches for appraising players’ fitness condition and real shape in order to play tough competitive matches of FIFA and AFC.
As the coach, after returning with his deputies on October 29 started training sessions of his boys and stated the matches to groom the team for next year.
Masud Pervej Kaiser, one of the deputies of Jamie Day, informed The Independent on Wednesday that the full-fledged practice sessions have kicked off thereafter the head coach’s joining the team from October 30.
“We have two sessions— morning and evening— in a day and in fact Jamie joined the team right after a day of his arrival, as he was tested coronavirus negative without quarantine.”
“With the full coaching force in action, we are going to get back normal atmosphere, as boys are very much enthusiastic about working hard to regain their optimum level of fitness in order to play competitive matches,” Kaiser, former national booter said.
