National booters leave for Cambodia

 
Bangladesh National football team Departed Dhaka on Saturday morningfor Cambodia to play a FIFA tier-1 Int'l friendly match against host Cambodia as a part of preparation for the upcoming SAFF Championship.

The Int'l friendly match is scheduled to be held on June 15 in Phnom Penh.
National football team's head coach Javier Cabrera on Friday announced a 23-member final squad for the friendly match against Cambodia and SAFF Championship.

Among the 23-memebr squad, defender Bishwanath Ghosh and Isa Faysal will not be able to accompany with the team due to visa problem. The Bangladesh Football Federation is expecting to get the visa of the duo by Sunday (June 11) and they will be sent to Cambodia after getting the visa.
Before the friendly match against Cambodia, The Jamal Bhuyan and Co. will play a practice match against Tiffy Army FC on June 12.

After the friendly match against Cambodia, the national team will leave Cambodia for Bengaluru on June 16 to take part in the SAFF Championship scheduled to be held from June 21 to August 4.

The Nigerian-born Bangladeshi forward Eleta made his Bangladesh jersey debut against Seychelles last March. Coach Javier also called him in the camp after the friendly match against Seychelles. However, Eleta was not considered eventually in the final squad, four days after the team's residential camp held at Bashundhara Kings arena.

Although Kingsley was left out from the squad, but Javier kept her faith on Bashundhara Kings' forward Sumon Reza in the final squad.
Earlier, Javier Cabrera announced a 35-memebr preliminary squad for SAFF Championship. He started the camp with a squad of 30 member excluding five players. Of those 30, seven more have been dropped and made the final squad today. Tutul Hossain Badsha, Rimon Hossain, Masuk Mia Joni, ShahriarEmon, Mehdi HasanSrabon, Sazzad Hossain and Elita Kingsley were dropped from the squad

Bangladesh, who are group in B along with Lebanon, the Maldives and Bhutan, will start their eight-nation SAFF Championship campaign taking on upper ranked Lebanon in their group B opening match scheduled to be held on June 22, one day after the formal kicks off of the championship on June 21.

The remaining two group matches will be held on June 25 and 28. Bangladesh will play against Maldives on June 25 at 4 pm (BST) and face Bhutan on June 28 at 8 pm (BST). All the matches will be held at SreeKanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, India.

Bangladesh squad - Anisur Rahman Zico, SahidulAlamSohel, MitulMarma, Topu Barman, Bishwanath Ghosh, Tariq RaihanKazi, AlomgirMolla, Rahmat Mia, MehediHasanMithu, Isa Faysal, Md. Ridoy, SohelRana, Sheikh Morsalin, Jamal Bhuyan, Mojibor Rahman Jony, MdSohelRana, RabiulHasan, Suman Reza, Foysal Ahmed Fahim, Mohammad Ibrahim, Rakib Hossain, Aminur Rahman Sojib and Md. Rafiqul Islam.