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'Don't bring a dinosaur from mountains'

In the last part of a two-part interview with The Daily Star's Atique Anam and Anisur Rahman, Bangladesh football team's coach Lodewijk de Kruif spoke elaborately about his plans with the national team and made suggestions about the development of the game.
DS: You will be back in mid-March ahead of the AFC U-23 Championship Qualifiers. What are you looking forward to when you comeback?
LDK: We worked very hard in the last two years and now we have a good national team. The important thing now for BFF is to decide whether they start from the scratch again or take the good work ahead. Mr Salahuddin is trying to do things. But there are still a lot of things to do. There are 170 million people in the country but only 30/35 players in the reckoning for the senior side. So we have a problem there.
DS: But you have to work with what you have. How do you overcome this problem?
LDK: I gave Salahuddin a list of where to start from. I'm already a little bit anxious about the AFC U-23 Qualifiers because we face Uzbekistan, Syria and India. The former two teams are very good and have fantastic players. So this is a big challenge.
DS: But since you are supposed to come only twelve days before the tournament, how will you be able to prepare for the challenge given you have to find some new players for the tournament?
LDK: We have Titu (assistant coach) and Kaiser (trainer) on the ground and they've done a tremendous job so far. For me, it's a situation of coming into the country and going out of it, watch a few matches and scout players. 1 don't want to sit here and work permanently because of my family and my family business back home. Maybe I can come every month for two weeks.
DS: But is it an ideal situation to be coaching this way; i.e. instructing over the internet or telephone and can BFF even afford that?
LDK: I think it's possible. I will watch matches every month and scout from there. Before my assignments I will run my camp. I think with more financial certainty, BFF can afford the plane tickets; it won't be a big problem.
DS: But only success will determine everything in the end. How challenging do you think it will be to succeed?
LDK: For me it's simple, if they can't fulfill that list, success won't come. You have to have a good academy, good coaching; development of the game throughout the country. In two years in this country, I've only seen Dhaka and Sylhet. I did not see Chittagong, I did not see Cox's Bazar, I did not see Khulna. Why?
DS: You said you would be scouting for players of Bangladeshi origin in Europe. Do you have any one under your radar?
LDK: There is an under-19 player with Bengali parents at Newcastle United and an under-17 player with Bengali parents at Cardiff City FC. They are playing in the youth teams. If we can have two or three players like that then that will make some change. Look at where Jamal Bhuiyan was two years ago and where he is now.
DS: What are the other things that you sug-
gested?
LDK: The first thing is to educate your coaches like in Europe, not like the AFC standards. We need to co-operate with KNVB (my football federation) and they are willing to do that. When I visit BKSP in Sylhet, I see they play 4-4-2; then I feel we have a problem because I play 4-3-3 and I want to bring those boys up in 4-3-3 style. The 4-4-2 is not for these boys, it's for the English boys and the Scandinavians, and all
those 'trees'.
DS: You mean something like the successful Belgian model where a single system in all the academies and even across professional leagues?
LDK: Yes, I think you have to always play in the same system even though you have to teach all the systems, because they have to recognise all the systems.
DS: But the modern systems of football were already introduced by some of the coaches like Maruful (Haque), (Shafiqul Islam) Manik and (Joseph) Afusi, even before you came here. Don't you think they deserve some credit?
LDK: I cannot speak about Maruf or Manik because I don't know them well. The local coaches must understand what style they should be implementing. Give coaches from Bangladesh the chance to develop with training, the chance at the club level to implement. Don't bring 'dinosaurs' from foreign countries at club level; that won't help football.
DS: But dinosaurs like Fabio Capello or Trapattoni are still doing well.
LDK: They are 75, but they develop every year. They go to countries and adapt. I won't complain if Mr Salahuddin says he wants to getTrapattoni; don't bring a dinosaur somewhere from the mountains.
DS: What if you don't continue after the March assignment? Where do you suggest BFF should be looking for?
LDK: I told Salahuddin, if we cannot go through, go for another coach. But don't bring a guy from Norway; don't bring a guy from England. Bring a guy from my area; Netherlands, Spain, France or Germany because of the football philosophy, the educational background and the approach of coaches from those places.