The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will form a ‘fact finding committee’ to look into the failure of the national football team in the recently concluded SAFF Championship in Nepal where Bangladesh were eliminated from the group stages without a single win.
The decision came yesterday after a meeting between the members of the National Teams Committee (NTC) and BFF president Kazi Salahuddin.
“In order to investigate the failure in the SAFF Championship and also to formulate better work-plan for the future, we will form a fact finding committee within a few days,” said BFF vice president and NTC member Tabith M Awal after the meeting yesterday.
“To find out the right facts, the committee, which will be formed with BFF executive committee members, can interview everyone including coaches, players, team officials, BFF executive members, and even members of NTC, who worked closely with the national team in the last two month,” said Tabith.
Coach Lodewijk de Kruif and manager Iqbal Hossain were supposed to submit separate reports to the NTC regarding the SAFF Championship yesterday but they will instead submit it to the fact finding committee.
Tabith however could not give a timeframe for the submission of the report but informed that they would finalise their next work-plan on the basis of the report of the fact finding committee.
Tabith informed that they have no plan to scrap the short-term contracts with goalkeeping coach Kees Kalk and trainer Mohammet Yamali, who will be working with the U-19 team for the qualifying round of the AFC U-19 Championship, before their contracts expire.
Replying to a query, the former footballer said, “Other nations in the SAFF have improved much compared to their previous standing but Bangladesh have improved little. We will have to improve the technical side of the players and find out players of good-build with a long-term plan.”
“As a member of the NTC, we gave effort as much as we could before the SAFF championship and I haven’t had much dissatisfaction regarding the result of the national team,” said
Asked about the possibility of holding the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament at home soil, Tabith said, “The BFF president (Kazi Salahuddin) is trying to get an appointment with the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) this week and if he gets the appointment, the Bangabandhu Gold Cup will be held after Eid-ul-Azha where six nations will participate instead of eight.”
The decision came yesterday after a meeting between the members of the National Teams Committee (NTC) and BFF president Kazi Salahuddin.
“In order to investigate the failure in the SAFF Championship and also to formulate better work-plan for the future, we will form a fact finding committee within a few days,” said BFF vice president and NTC member Tabith M Awal after the meeting yesterday.
“To find out the right facts, the committee, which will be formed with BFF executive committee members, can interview everyone including coaches, players, team officials, BFF executive members, and even members of NTC, who worked closely with the national team in the last two month,” said Tabith.
Coach Lodewijk de Kruif and manager Iqbal Hossain were supposed to submit separate reports to the NTC regarding the SAFF Championship yesterday but they will instead submit it to the fact finding committee.
Tabith however could not give a timeframe for the submission of the report but informed that they would finalise their next work-plan on the basis of the report of the fact finding committee.
Tabith informed that they have no plan to scrap the short-term contracts with goalkeeping coach Kees Kalk and trainer Mohammet Yamali, who will be working with the U-19 team for the qualifying round of the AFC U-19 Championship, before their contracts expire.
Replying to a query, the former footballer said, “Other nations in the SAFF have improved much compared to their previous standing but Bangladesh have improved little. We will have to improve the technical side of the players and find out players of good-build with a long-term plan.”
“As a member of the NTC, we gave effort as much as we could before the SAFF championship and I haven’t had much dissatisfaction regarding the result of the national team,” said
Asked about the possibility of holding the Bangabandhu Gold Cup football tournament at home soil, Tabith said, “The BFF president (Kazi Salahuddin) is trying to get an appointment with the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hasina) this week and if he gets the appointment, the Bangabandhu Gold Cup will be held after Eid-ul-Azha where six nations will participate instead of eight.”
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