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NSC Talent Hunt

2nd phase underway

Sports Reporter
With a bid to grooming young sportsters for the national and international level, the National Sports Council started the second phase of its talent hunt programme in Dhaka yesterday.
Some 195 athletes including 52 girls in football, athletics, volleyball, handball and kabaddi, who were selected at the district level through a 21-day training camp, have assembled in Dhaka for another three week's of training. However, only 129 out of those 195 will get the full three weeks of training as the number of athletes will be cut down after the first two days.
The sports regulatory body, NSC, had started the preliminary training in the middle of the last year involving 20 disciplines at an expenditure ofTk 1.41 crore and that time a total of2308 athletes were given training in 46 districts. Some 608 athletes were picked for the further training in Dhaka and the training of the rest of the disciplines will get underway gradually after the completion of the five disciplines. Tk 75 lakh has been allotted for the current phase of training.
State Minister for Youth and Sports Ahad Ali Sarker promised to keep this training programme running round the year by different phases, at the inauguration ceremony yesterday.
The participating athletes also appealed to the NSC to continue its effort to groom the
up and coming sportsmen in the country by running this training round the year. The basic training, which was given last year, benefited the athletes and paid rich dividends in the national meet, the athletes opined.
“I became second in 100m sprint during the junior athletics meet as I took part in the meet after a three-week training of NSC's talent hunt programme,” said Mohammad Ashikyesterday.
Shanto Islam from Kishorganj participates in high jump and now he can clear more height than he used to earlier, he said.
“I cleared 1.75 metres in the training and hope I will be able to clear more once I receive further training from here,” said Shanto, astudentofclassXI.
He however urged the NSC to give directives to District Sports Association to hold the athletics meet as the DSA only arranges top sports like football and cricket.
“After returning from here, I will have no engagement and will have to spend lazy time but if there is some sports meet, then I can engage myself in preparation,” said Shanto.
However, footballers like Rakibul Hasan from Gazipur, Sabbir Hossain from Sherpur have no such problems as they undergo training under local coaches.
The most important is to keep the training continued on a long-term basis, which saw footballers like Kaiser Hamid, Rokib, Rehan and Karzon emerged in the 1980s.