The Independence Day Handball competition (men’s and women’s), organised by Bangladesh Handball Federation begins on Saturday at the Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium in the capital.
The competition will be held marking the golden jubilee of Bangladesh Independence.
A total of twelve – six of men’s and an equal number of women’s – teams will take part in the tournament.
The participating men’s teams are Border Guard Bangladesh, Bangladesh Police Handball Club, Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defense Party, Team Handball Dhaka, Pioneer Chapainawabganj and TST Lion Jamalpur while the participating women’s teams are Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defense Party, Bangladesh Police Handball Club, TST Lion Jamalpur, Handball Training Center, Bodolgachi Handball Association and Nasrul Hamid Sports Academy.
A press conference was held on Thursday in this regard at the Shaheed Captain M Mansur Ali Handball Stadium’s newly-built conference room to provide all the details of the meet.
BHF general secretary Asaduzzaman Kohinoor, BHF vice-president Mohammad Nurul Islam, tournament maintaining committee chairman and additional deputy police commissioner (Shampur Zone) Romana Nasrin and managing committee secretary Mohammad Mokbul Hossain spoke in the press conference.