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Salam also strikes

SPORTS REPORTER
The crisis in the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) deepened yesterday as two more former national footballers joined the long queue of resignation party after legendary Kazi Salahuddin had stepped down on Thursday.
The last two wickets to fall from the BFF's National Team Management Committee (NTMC) were Salam Murshedi and Sayeed Hassan Kanan.
Salam, who holds the unique record of scoring highest 28 league goals in a season for Mohamme-dan, tendered his resignation to the BFF president SA Sultan in the afternoon. Kanan, whose heated debate with an arrogant Mohammedan football secretary Amirul Islam Babu in a BFF executive committee meeting sparked the spate of resignations, also expressed his solidarity with his NTMC chairman Salahuddin.
Salahuddin decided to quit the BFF after its president disregarded their recommendations of a technical person as manager for any national selection. BFF president in a whimsi-
cal ruling appointed Babu, who has hardly kicked a soccer ball in his life, as manager of the under-20 team for the AFC Youth Championship.
“It is impossible for anybody with a sense of dignity to work in the BFF after what had happened in the last few days. If they can disrespect a person like Salahuddin bhai then there is no point for us to continue,” said Salam, the prolific scorer of early 80s over phone to The Daily Star.
The former national striker also blasted the federation high-ups for creating confusion over the resignation of the 5-member management committee.
“It is unfortunate that some people are trying to focus on a secondary issue like the heated exchange between Babu and Kanan instead of harping on the main agenda. Like Salahuddin bhai the rest of the committee members have resigned because their decision of appointing a technical person as manager was overturned by the BFF president.
“We have come here not to take anything. Rather we wanted to contribute both physically and financially to the game that has been on the decline. “I think the top brass of BFF is responsible for dragging a simple problem into a big crisis,” claimed Salam, one of the contributors for the monthly salary of the Argentine coaching staff of the national team.
Salam alleged that football has been a hostage by non-technical persons over the years and the controversial ruling of the BFF boss once again proved this harsh reality.
“I don't think there was a better person than Salahuddin bhai to know the game and the problems surrounding it. I believe under his guidance football was going in the right direction. But unfortunately some people don't have the guts to come out of their medieval mindset,” Salam said bitterly.
“Actually the federation did not want the team management committee to give a free hand,” he opined.
“We have appreciated their efforts to assemble former footballers to bring back the glory days of football. But that does not necessarily mean we will have to be a pawn of their dirty old game in the name of so-called democratic practice,” he said.