Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has deciding to sign contract with Paul Thomas Smalley as Technical and Strategic Director of BFF and Tom Julianus Maria Saintfiet as the head coach of the National Football Team.
The decision was taken at a meeting of the executive committee of Bangladesh Football Federation at the BFF board room on Saturday with its President Kazi Mohammad Salahuddin in the chair.
The meeting also decided to hosts the Group-C matches of the AFC U-16 Women’s Championship 2017 Qualifiers in a befitting manner and to provide adequate support to Bangladesh Women’s Football Team for the meet.
The meeting also finalized the term of reference of its sponsoring organisations as BFF Strategic Partners and also approved the proposed schedule of the three-member FIFA delegation in Bangladesh under FIFA Forward Programo on Sept 8-10
Bangladesh national football team’s head coach Tom Saintfiet arrived Dhaka from his home country Belgium on Wednesday morning.
After his arrival, Saintfiet made a courtesy meeting with Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) general secretary Abu Nyeem Sohag.
Saintfiet is expected to start the national booters’ training camp for Asian Cup Qualifiers on August 27.
Saintfiet has been associated as the national team head coach from July 12 on a verbal agreement with BFF, ahead of the Bangladesh’s two Play-off-2 matches for the Asian Cup Qualifiers at home on September 6 and away on October 10 against Bhutan.
