Former Banglade sh international Mohammad Mo hsin will lead ne w* making Muk tijoddha Sangsad

in the upcoming football season scheduled to kick-off with the DMFA Cup beginning from April 27.

The daring goalkeeper who has fallen of lale fallen out of favour of the naUonal selectors htl the headlines during the recent soccer players transfers when he along with ten other former and present na lional hooters joined the hitherto unfancied Muktijoddha Sangsad now rechristened a* Mukti]oddha Krira Chakra.

The revelation was made

yesterday by the club officials at a press conference held at the club premises.

A middling team which made its appearance in First Division football league way back in 1985 In the name of Muktijoddha Sangsad (freedom fighters’ organisation) took the football fans by storm at the onset of this year's football season roping some of the cel ebrated footballers of the country from the clutches of the two traditional claimants of the league title — reigning champions Mohammedans and their arch rivals Abahani Krira Chakra

Muktijoddha officials whose Inspirational drive left their big club counterparts In the lurch, raising hopes as well of a new dimension to the rather monotonous pattern of the league race, yesterday passionately dwelt on their motives and Ideals behind the most sensational transfer story in the annals of domestic foot ball

Lt Col (retd) Nazrul Islam, convenor of the club who was accompanied among others by Lt (retd) Manzur Qader. a renegade official from Abahani. Manibur Rahman, member secretary of Muktijoddha Sangsad central command and club captain Mohsin reiterated that Muktijoddha Krira Chakra will not be in the hunt for mere title. They will try to Inject diversity and dynamism In the stagnant situation of coun try's soccer arena marked by the unhealthy dominance of two clubs. Imbued with the spirit of liberation. Muktijoddha will never Indulge in hiring foreign players, a practice going on In full swing among the top clubs over the last couple of years.

If all goes well. Muktijoddha are likely to be real thorns in the flesh for all three top clubs — Mohammedans. Abahani and Brothers even without foreign players

Top players bracketed in a pool of 21 earlier this year by the big trio, revolted against the officials who were insisting on a stipulation and an event — Star photo ally ineffective wage telling Celebrated footballers rustled up under the banner of Football Players Welfare Association (FPWA) and joined Muktijoddha Krira Chakra en masse on April 9 to avenge the high-handedness of the off! cials of Mohammedans. Aba ha ni and Brothers Union.