Ninety two footballers changed their allegiance on the second day of the inter-club soccer transfers yesterday.

The Dhaka Metropolis Football Association (DMFA) office at the Dhaka Stadium was abuzz last night with almost all the leading clubs trooping in their prize collections for the forthcoming Premier and First Division leagues, due to kickoff sometime In May.

Defending Premier Division champions Abahani Krlra Char •,i v,h<> look oql eight trans-

■kcii' '-ii Sunday, yester-i iv ioinpvied Die registration loriii.ililies <>f (hose players. Hiev.ii. Biplob (from Brothers Untonl. Jamal. Iqlwl. Jahangir (from Agrani Bank). Hassan Al-Mamun (Fakirtrpool). Chan-chal and Ali Mansur from Warl Club.

Muktijoddha Sangsad Krira Chakra, who despite spending loads of cash on some stgrti had to settle for the. second . spot behind Abahani last year, registered four Abahani players last night.

They are Zakir Hossain. Go-lam Gaus. Emdadul and Ma-sudur Rahman Rana. Shahzada and Babu Das came over from Brothers and Arambagh respectively.

Mohammedan Sporting Club, who as usual will be chasing after the coveted»title. signed on Arman (from Muktijoddha). Milon from Rahmal-ganj. Munna of East End and Ruhul Amin from Brothers Union. However. Mohammedans lost the services of two players on the day. Their goalkeeper Sheikh Abdullah Lahul. who has done national duty, and Biplab Manna, the young defender from the Hill Tracts, crossed over to Rah-matganj who earned promotion to the senior bracket after having topped the First Division league last year.

Soccer buffs and club officials will be spending a busy . day today because the Bangladesh national squad, which lost in the semifinals of the Bristol Cup SAARC tournament. returns from Colombo this afternoon.

If the zeal of our club officials is any guide, trading in players may have already started and it won’t be the least bit surprising If the eager beavers who manipulate the footballing fortunes of the local clubs were to shanghai some of the so-called stars straight from the Zia Airport to the DMFA office to sign for their teams.

But if reports or rumours are to be given any credence, most of the players in the national squad more or less made their commitments for the coming season well before boarding the plane for Colombo. Yet. in this cloak-and-dagger world of soccer signings, a few last-minute changes of mind Influenced by tempting monetary considerations, cannot of course be ruled out. The trans fers conclude on April 7.