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Abahani play AIS today

Sports Reporter
City football to vers, starving fro m the suspension of league football, the piece de re sutonce of our
sport* gourmand*, will have a chance to whet their appetite tonight with the exhibition match between vlatttng Ambassadors In Sport* (AIS), a roving multinational football team and reigning local First Dtvtaton champion* Abahanl Krtra Chakra
With the league put off rather arbitrarily because of Bangladesh's participation 1n two closely followed junior International tournaments — the under-16 Aslan Group Three tournament in Rajshahl which hosts Bangladesh won In style, and the under-19 champ! onship. now in progress In India's Kannur. football fans whose time really hang heavy without the evening engage ment on the football field In a country notorious for the dearth of entertaining pur suits, the visit of the UK-based amateur football side Is a wel come promise of action that will lift the Circean spell from the good old Dhaka Stadium.
The stadium at the city nerve centre which has been wearing the look of a deserted stage with it* blank terraces since May 29. may have had to wait another week to come alive but for the visit of the AIS team. With 30 league matches yet to played to decide the league title and the rekaattoa formalities, the taro exhibitton matches involving the visitor* took Ilk* an Meal prelude >e fore the resumption of the re mainder of the unfinished teague
Abahanl Krtra Chakra are leading the point* table with 31 point* from 16 matches while areh-rtvai* Mohamme dan Sporting Club trail them by two point* from the same number of game* All the team*, including BJMC. who
face expulsion from the Senior Division with the lowest tally of three point*, have played sixteen matches each.
The AIS team comprising 20 amateur footballers from different countries 1* In fact the European unit of the Sea Horse Club of California USA. that toured Bangladesh tn 1989. The captain of the team Philip Mitchell is a Northern Ireland international who was in the Ulster squad for the World Cup 1990 qualifying round*. Although he did not take part in any of the official matches he did play In a warm-up match against Argentina, the eventual run ner»-up.
A tuned, fit and enthusiastk-bunch of footballers who want to widen the horizon of friend ship and familiarity through their sporting embassage, the AIS. according to team player Steve Adolph, who was born in Bangladesh, will give the local sides 'tough' fights. Ai 40. Keith Hamond la the oldest player of the aide but capable of causing a problem or two with hi* height and celerity
The AIS will take on last year's runner-up Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting Club tn thetr second match at the Dhaka Stadium Monday before leaving the capital to play matches tn Khulna. Jessorc and probably tn Chittagong The visitor*, who will go to India In the next pha*r of their
trip to play a number of exhl bit ion matches, are expected to finish their engagements In Bangladesh by May 25
With both Abahanl and Mohammedans missing the services of some of their talented young footballers be cause of the ongoing under-19 tournament In India, the parti san football fans who have the habit of scoffing at anything amateur may haw vine shocks awaiting them but how far the visitors, coming from more temperate climes, can ace 11 matise themselves with the hot. humid condition* of a Bangladesh summer, remains to be seen.
The rates of the ticket* for the two matches to be played at the Dhaka Stadium — Abahanl playing AIS in the first today at seven pm and Mohammedans on Monday at the same time — have been fixed at Taka 50 for the VIP gallery. Gate No 1, Taka 30 for gates Number 3 A and B and Taka 15 for the stands