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BFF polls today

Sports Reporter
With hope to elect a workable executive committee that will bring football in the country back on the right track, the long due election of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) will be held today.
After the annual general meeting in the morning, the councillors will cast their votes for 21 posts from 2-6 pm at the BFF Bhaban with Asian Football Confederation (AFC) high-ups monitoring the process.
There is no clear favourite and legendary footballer Kazi Salahuddin is pitted against Maj Gen (retd) Amin Ahmed Chowdhury, a relatively unknown face in football arena, for the presi-dent'shotseat.
Both the president candidates have called the 112 voters out of 119 councillors to go for the worthy and honest persons but it seems that neither panel has won full confidence of the voters or even the critics.
The footballer lovers, however, will welcome a mix of both panels to win in expense of the black sheep' of the family and represent the governing body of football for the next four years.
Salahuddin's announcement to contest as president was greeted by
all quarters initially but the country's best (arguably) footballer's association with members of the incumbent committee, which has been time again blamed for the game's demise in the last few years, came as a shock
And to form a panel, they had to compromise in the very beginning as veterans like Anwarul Hoque Helal and Sirajul Islam Bachchu sacrificed their nominations as vice-presidents to make way for colleagues who got into the panel for having control over voters rather than footballing reasons.
Similarly, it was also surprising to see some seasoned campaigners like Harunur Rashid and Badal Roy, known as the 'opposition' through- out the regime of outgoing president SA Sukan, stand behind the inexperienced Amin Ahmed.
While the vote bank of Forum — the organisation of district and divisional associations - looks to be the strength of the Salahuddin-led panel, the top clubs of Dhaka, especially the professional league sides, are behind Amin who even at one stage reportedly asked Salahuddin to join his panel as vice-president due to the former national football captain's acceptability.
"We are confident to win because 60 percent of the district voters are with us, claimed Amin Ahmed on the eve of the election.
"We have worked hard at district’ level to convince the voters and also, the top clubs in the country are sup porting this panel
"We have capable organisers who would be able to upgrade the standard of the game and take football to a certain standard," saidAmin.
Salahuddin, meanwhile, played it just like a footballer would.
"This is like a final match. I feel, like any football match, that a little bit more preparation would have been helpful," said the ex-striker.
"Its all part of the game and now everything depends on the council-lors.We can t predict any results.
"If elected. I am ready to work with anyone. In fact, it would be a totally president-run show’ if the councillors decide to choose me.
"I have played football for two decades and now can see that politics is a whole new thing. Having contributed towards the game now I want an opportunity to serve football," he added.
For the first time, all the secretarial posts including generalsecretary would be appointed according to the new FIFA statutes that have been induced to the constitution in an extraordinary’ general meeting last month. '
The executive committee, w'hich expired in April 2007, was given one year's time to implement the FIFA statutes under which Football Associations in districts and divisions have been formed.
However, the members of the EC including president SA Sultan will have no voting power according to the constitution. The 14 EC members will have replacement voters from their respective organisations.