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Mass resignation in hockey

Sports Reporter
Once very popular, the dying game of hockey seemed to fall into further abyss after eleven national players failed to find any team on the final day of the Premier Hockey League transfer yesterday.
The eleven players, down and out, also decided to quit the national team for the bleak future they face this season in the wake of the controversial pool system responsible for their doom.
Players like Rajan, Yamin, Tuhin, Tabib, Zahid, Shakil, Dinar, Titu, Rahul. Hasan and Habul who have been dominating the domestic scene for quite some time, appealed to the Bangladesh Hockey Federation’s ad-hoc committee last night to accept their resignation.
Apart from Yamin, the centre-back who has been suffering from a
major injury and is unlikely to play this season at all, the other ten submitted their resignations to general secretary Sajed Adel.
”We don't want to play for the national team. As national players, we get no reward rather this punishment of being included in the pool. If there had been no pool, we might have escaped this situation," told the jobless players showing their disgust over the pool system at the Maulana Bhasani National HockeyStadium.
The other national stars who have found teams for the season, however, came to show their unity with their colleagues and told they are also ready to step down.
"We have commitment to our clubs so we are not resigning now. But we will also quit step by step. Otherwise we all will suffer in the future," commented the senior
national players.
Meanwhile, a few teams have been trying to bank on the situation and recruit players cheaply.
Defending two-time champions Usha Krira Chakra said they will not go for the hattrick championship by recruiting top players. They even did not bother to include some players till theevening.
"Our budget is just Tk two lakh. We would not pay more than Tk 10,000 for a single player," said club's joint secretary Shafayet Hossain.
Usha have six pool players with all resigning and in case they don't join any other team before the transfer deadline (last night), they will belong to the old-Dhaka outfit.
It apparently looks like a 'trap' that will force the players to stay if they decide to continue with their domestic career.
Mariner Youngs Club, another force in local hockey, also remained silent although they had said during setting up the pool quota that they would take six pool players.
'We are facing an economic crisis. Our sources of income have been stopped. We can't pay the players because lack of fund.’ said Mariners official and federation joint secretary Al am gir Kabir.
With other teams completing the formalities on the final day, Mohammedan signed a dozen players from BKSP including four -Pintu, Rana, Kiron and Tapash - of the national pool. They had previously’ signed national defender Issa Mia and Asif-e-Noor from Abahani.