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Clubs for 3 foreigners

Sports Reporter
While most of the club officials and coaches want three foreign players to play in a match in the upcoming sixth professional football league in an effort to give more opportunity to the local hooters, the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) is apparently considering allowing four foreigners for a game.
The officials and coaches of Mohammedan, Abahani, Muktijoddha Sangsad and Sheikh Russel KC are in favour of allowing two to three foreign players in a match while Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club seeks four foreign players, citing lack of quality local players.
Before Bangladesh U-22 team's engagement in AFC U-22 Asia Cup last month, the league committee sat with the clubs, who requested the committee to reduce the number of foreigners, but the committee has yet to decide on it though the players' transfers window will open on August 16.
The professional football league committee last season had decided to allow three foreign players in a match, but BFF president Kazi Salahuddin overruled that to allow four foreigners for a game and registration of seven foreign players, saying that would make the league more attractive and competitive besides making the teams stronger.
And the league committee is likely to keep last season's foreign quota intact this time too.
"We have no alternative to reducing dependency on foreign players if we want to keep the country's football alive," said Mohammedan's football manager Amirul Islam Babu, adding that his club, despite being a depleted side, had played better than others in the second-leg of the just-concluded Bangladesh Premier League and five players from their line-up were chosen for the national U-22 squad.FROM PAGE 16
"If four foreigners play in a match, the local players get less opportunity and they can't learn the competitiveness of a match. It finally affects their performance when they play for the national team and the federation should prioritise what is best for the country," said Shafiqul Islam Manik of Muktijoddha.
"I want three foreigners to play in a match against four registrations and the fourth player should be allowed to play as substitute in place of another foreign player," said Abahani manager Satyajit Das Rupu, who believed four foreign registrations are enough.
Former BFF general secretary and Mohammedan director Anwarul Haq Helal is also in favour of three foreign players and wants to see reduction of foreign players gradually to make rooms for the locals.
But Sheikh Jamal manager Anwarul Karim Helal said they are going to form a team to win, but they can't find any quality player left in the market despite having enough money for buying them.
"We too don't want more foreign players in the league but this time our demand is to allow four foreigners for a match," said Karim.
Generally the clubs that fight for the title always keep a good reserve in each position, and that's why most of the quality players get picked by the top three or four clubs, leaving no quality players left for others. And for almost non-existence of domestic football outside of the capital, the cycle of quality players is limited to Dhaka-based clubs only.
It had been seen in last two years that the national squads were being made up of those limited players who spent most of their time on the sidelines. And because of lack of match practice, the national team struggled against teams like Nepal, Afghanistan, Maldives and Bhutan.