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Soccer leagues from today

Sports Reporter
The two-tier Senior Division tootball leagues — the Pre^ner and the First Division — begins at two different venues in the capital horn today.
The leagues will be named after Lifebuoy’ a product of the new sponsors Lever Brothers (BD| Limited who will provide the organisers Dhaka Metropolis Football Association (DMFA) Taka twenty lakh for the sponsorshiprights.
Twenty teams including ten in the elite group will feature in the marathon double league format scheduled to conclude on September 15.
On the inaugural day de fending Premier Division football league champions Abahani Krira Chakra will take on newly promoted Farashganj Sporting Club in one of the two matches billed for the Dhaka Stadium while the other match will be held at the Mirpur Stadium.
Deputy Leader of the House Professor A Q M Badruddoza Chowdhury is expected to declare the championship open prior to the first match between Abahani and Victoria SC, scheduled dor a 5 pm start at the Dhaka Stadium.
Meanwhile, at a pre-league press briefing chaired by the DMFA president M Azizul Huq, the organisers gave the details of the prestigious meet at the NSC conference room yesterday
Aziz, the president of the newly appointed ad hoc committee, who also held the same post ol the previous committee which was dis-
solved a week ago, said "We want to complete the league as smoothly as the previous three years.'
But when asked about the league committee chairman and one of the vice-presidents of the DMFA Shahidul Islam, who resigned from the DMFA recently, the seasoned bureaucrat said "He is now involved with more serious jobs as a government official. He has done a great job for the last three seasons as the chairman of the league com-mittee. But you know no one
is indispensable," rounded off Aziz.
However, it is not true for ►a cynic like Azizul Huq, who is expected to return to the Bangladesh Football Federation.
He had earlier resigned as the president of the BFF, after inflicting a tug of war between the BFF and the former ad hoc committee of the DMFA which eventually gave the National Sports Council (NSC) chairman an opportu nity to dissolve the former committee of the DMFA, that over the years proved to be
the most competent body among all the sports federations.
But Aziz argued that, the former ad hoc committee was not dissolved for defying BFF's advice to introduce a new format in the leagues in a bid to curb the match-fixing, widely practised by the clubs last year.
When asked how they will cope with pre-arranged affairs as the existing bye-laws only slapped a fine of Taka 50,000 on the culprits but no points reduction, the president was philosophical, out failed to provide any satisfactory answer.
The press briefing was also attended among others by the Group product manager of sponsors Lever Brothers O, K Oye Ole. The Nigerian made a brief speech before signing the contract and handed over a cheque, worth one-third of the total amount, to the DMFA president.
Besides, the DMFA secretary Mozammel Huq Mukta vice-president Anwarul Helal and league secretary Ferdous Islam was also present on the occasion.
The rate for the gallery tickets at the Dhaka Stadium has been fixed at Taka 15 while the Mirpur Stadium will be open to the spectators to enjoy the matches free of cost.
TODAY'S MATCHES
Abahani KC vs Farashganj SC 5 pm (Dhaka Stadium)
Victoria SC vs Eskaton SS 7 pm (Dhaka Stadium)
Bangladesh vs Badda Jago-rani 6 pm (Mirpur Stadium)