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Foul play with football

Hasan Masood
A practice match between the England-bound national team and the under-19 squad could not be held yesterday due to the poor ground condition at (he Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur.
The ground was found in a miserable state with a fertile growth of knee-height long grasses and plenty of big holes exposing how badly the National Sports Council maintained the ground. The match was scheduled to start at 5 pm.
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF). which had thought of ensuring both the national selections a chance to have tough practice match ahead of their important engagements,,found nq other way but to postpone the match. The youth team will take part in the -Group Four qualifying round of the Asian Under-19 football championship. starting In Rajshahi from July 7.
The under-19 team came all the wav from BKSP to play the match. Understandably, their coach Abu Yousuf was quite perturbed, as he could not make his final assessment on
his side yesterday.
While the BFF officials and players were expressing their frustrations, the NSC-paid administrator of the stadium watched them with a kind of embarrassment from outside the ground.
After being persuaded by the BFF general secretary’ Harunur Rashid. MP and his joint-secretary’ Badal Roy. who is also the manager of the under-19 team, the administrator brought in a small mower on loan from the nearby Swimming Federation and started cutting the grass.
“I had nothing Io do Because everything is being controlled by (lie men in our head office at Parana Pahan. 1 was informed aboul the match >only Ihls morning. But I have hot got any mower. We had two machines. but bbth were out of order. That is why I had to borrow one from the Swimming Federation." said Saiful Islam, the administrator.
But Badal Roy claimed that they had informed NSC about the game four days back.
"The NSC is not looking after football properly. This is the main football venue of the coun-
try. But it is worse than the ground we have outside the stadium where Pioneer league is being played." said another BFF official.
Meanwhile, footballers at the national football camp alleged that they faced with acute scarcity of water at the Krira Palll in Mirpur.
Talking to The Daily Star, coach Hasanuzzaman Khan Bablu said his players did not get enough water to flush the toilets even.
"We began this camp ten days ago and still there is no water at the dormitory,” he claimed.
"1 don't know what to do when they appeared for their morning practice and said they could not use the toilet for the lack of water. , ,
"It definitely affects the practice of the boys. I can't ask them to run knowing well of their inconvenience.' said a frustrated Bablu.
Twenty-two are now attending the national camp. They are likely to leave for London on July 21 to plav an exhibition match against India on July 29.