& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

Asian under-16 Group Three qualifiers

Big day for Rajshahi

Sports Reporter
The Group Three qualifying round tournament of the fifth Asian under 16 foolball
begin* today at the Rajahahl
Five teams. including host. Bangladeslx arc taking part tn the tournament that Is being organised by the Rajahahl District Sports Association
India. Pakiatan. Nepal. Maldives and Bangindesh will vie for the title of the ten day tong competition which will be Inaugurated by State Mtntater for Youth and Sport*. Sadcq Hossain Kboka.
The champion team will win passage into the next round to be played tn Saudi Arabia In September Hosts Bangladesh meet Maldives In the opening match scheduled for a 4.30 pm kickoff.
While Pakistan. Nepal, the Maldives, and hosts Bangladesh are already in Rajshahi. the Indian team which reached Dhaka only yes terday afternoon, will leaves for Rajshahi today
The organisers have com pie ted all necessary arrangements for the smooth holding of the biennial feature of the Aslan Football Confederation. The Rajshahi Stadium, with a capacity of 15,000, has been renovated and the town Itself spruced up.
The stadium has been decorated with flags, colour banners and festoons to host the prestigious International meet.
A media centre with fax, telex, telephone and other fa-cllltlca WHS opened yesterday
Addressing a press conference. Rajshahi City Mayor Mizanur Rahman Mlnu sought cooperation from all to make the tournament successful. Joint Secretary of the Bangladesh Football Federation Strajul Islam Baccho and Organising Secretary Zafar Imam also spoke on the occasion.
The Social Marketing Company, an organisation working tn the family planning sector, is sponsoring the meet and has announced the "Raja Cup' for the championship trophy.
The match commissioner Abdur Rahman Zainai of United Arab Emirates and two refer ees from Thailand — P Somporn and P Boonchard — have arrived tn the city to con duct the matches
The two other Shri l-ankan referees — Yapa A Mohaacna ■nd Mohammad Mohsin Arif — who arrived in Dhaka yesterday will also reach Rajshahi by to
Three local rctcrecs — Huhmai Hossain. Shawkat Hossain Anju and Abdul Haq — will assist the four foreign match supervisions.
The Rajshahi station of Radio Bangladesh will broadcast running commentary of all the matches
FIXTURE
Following is the fixture of the matches
May 3 Bmladesh vs Maldives
May 4. Nepal v* India
May 5 l>tou.tan vs Maldives
May 6 . Bangladesh vs Nepal
May 7 India vs Pakistan
May 8 Nepal vs Maldives
May 9 thuiglmkah vs Pakistan
May 10; India vs Maldives
May 11 Pakistan vs Nepal
May 12 Itangladesh vs India
TEAMS
MALDIVES
Ahamcd Shahlr — (Manager). Mohamed Hashim —(Asst Manager). Moosa Mani —(Coach). Ahamcd Saleem — (Asst Coach).
Playwa
Shamir Mohamed. Ahamed Ziyhd. Ahamcd Marzoog, Ibrahim Luthufce, Mohamed Arif, Abdoulla Rouf. Hussain Ziyad. Ahamcd Haishm. All Hassan. Mohammed Iklcel, Zu hair Ismail. Moosa Fathy. Ismail Shareef, Hussain Habecb. Mohamed Saeed. Abdulla Rasheed, Adnan Habedb. Ibrahim Ismail. Ahamed Alt Did. Ahamed Rasheed.
NEPAL
Raju Thapa — (Coach). Holger Obermann — (Sports Advisor).
Players:
Bhupcndra Mishra, Amar Adhikarl. Sailesh Doshi. Gambhlr Roy. Den Kaji Maharajan. Anil Upadhyay. Dilip Kumar Katuwal, Amir Dongol. Devendra Lama. Sajan Basnet. Rajman Shtngh. Ranjit Shlngh. Rabin Thapa. Raj Kumar Thapa. Nhlrlsh Bk knim Shah. Sanlalal Choudhurt, Saj Kumar Ale. Suresh Kumar Banya. Ashok Chudhamint Bajracharya. Dtpendra Man ShrvstliH PAKISTAN
Hafiz Salman Butt — (Delegation Head), Md Nascer Awan (Manager). Hafiz SohaJb Butt — (Coach). Mohammad Younaa, (As.lt Couch).
Players
Mohammad Ayub, Zia Subtain, Athar Mehmood. Shahid Imran. Laeeq Shah. Khalid Khan. Ghulam Mustafa. Iftikhar Ghani, Amjad Rcftque. Asghar Khan Anjor. Farooquc Aziz. Abu Bakar. Khashif Naseer. EjaJ Ahmmed Khan, Obada Tariq. Nacem Khalid. Asif Khan. Shamacl Anjum. Mateen Mehmood. Adeel Shariaraj ButL INDIA
Borchand Shtngh — (Manager). Gou tom Sarkar — (Chief Coach). Compton Dutt — (Technical Director).
Pteym
Goutam Roy. Avijil Barua Sandipan Mottra, Dulal Biswas. Riajul Mooalafa. Sumilava Sengpupta. Sanjay Dayal. Amit Ghosh. Maha Majhl. Amitava Ghosh. Amit Das. Prascnjit Paul. Anup Mukherjee. Balchung Bhulla. Basudcv Mondal. Baburam Kisku. Sukhlal Tlrkey. Ralan Singh. Surendra Singh Jadon. Jeshu Singh. Trllok Singh. Ajoy Singh. Joseph. Lakshman Chatterjee. Tarun Roy.
BANGLADESH:
S M Sahcb Alt — (Manager). Shamsuddoha Khan Majlish — (Associate Manager). Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu — (Coach). A K M Anwurul Hoquc Panna — (Asstt Coach).
Md Arman. Md Emdadul Haque. Md Millon Hossain. Nasirul Haque. Mosaddor Rahaman. Biptob Manna. Ujjal Kumar Chakraborty. Ruhul Amin, Parltosh Dcwan. Md Alauddin. Mozammel Haque Chowdhury (Biptob). M A Abid (Htru). Md Montruzzaman. Md Nazimuddln. Md Zahldui Islam Nayan, Masud Zafar. Sahed Abadtn Shobhan, Md Hafizur Rashid, AbdulAl-Muzahid (Soyed). Jahangir Hossain. Mohammad Yusuf. Zafar Hasan Simon. Alok Kumar Bakshi, Baziur Rahman.