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BFF wary of Kolkata gaffes

Sports Reporter
The Bangladesh Football Federation will strive to avoid the administrative gaffes that had happened before and after Friday's Argentina-Venezuela friendly in Kolkata when they host the Argentina-Nigeria friendly in Dhaka at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday.
Prior to the start of the Argentina-Venezuela match, there was a mess-up with the national anthems of both sides, while 15 to 20 guests entered the pitch to get introduced with the players. To make matters worse, Lionel Messi and his teammates were kept waiting for nearly 10 minutes for the post-match ceremony that reportedly infuriated the former world champions. Apart from these, hundreds of spectators failed to get into the arena despite having tickets due to a long queue.
“In a bid to avoiding the sort of mismanagement that occurred in Kolkata, we will make sure that not more than five guests is allowed to be introduced to the players and there will be no post-match ceremony as well,” said Anwarul Haq Helal, chairman of organising committee of the Argentina-Nigeria friendly.
“All 21 gates at BNS will be open three hours prior to the scheduled start of the match at 6:00pm,” said Helal adding that they were expecting no rush as the BNS has
only 24 thousand capacity.
The football's governing body also expects to start the match on the time and in this end the match commissioner Munir Ahmed has been asked to arrange a rehearsal which is expected to take place today.
Argentina team is scheduled to land at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 9:30am on Monday by a Bangladesh Biman Airlines (flight # BG-092) and the Nigeria team will reach the capital an hour later.
The BFF will host an official dinner for both teams on the same day and sponsors Beximco has taken the responsibility to arrange the dinner for approximately250 invited guests.
Beximco has reportedly provided Tk 30 crore to BFF to host the match but the company would take their investment back from earnings the football federation would achieve.
“Actually there is no loss for Beximco. What return we are expecting from the match will be achieved I believe,” said Beximco Group's vice chairman Salman F Rahman after a meeting with the BFF high-ups yesterday, who seemed a bit unhappy with the way BFF handled the publicity affairs of the of the Argentina-Nigeria match.
"There should have been more promotional activities regarding the match on the BFF's part even though I had instructed Salahuddin to complete everything seven to eight days before the Eid. However, the kind of feedback I'm getting at present, it seems that the all tickets will be sold out before the match as it did in Kolkata,” said Rahman adding that they did not sponsor the match to promote the company, rather they did it for reviving the popularity of football in the country.