The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has launched the FIFA Member Association Refereeing Course 2017 with the participation of the leading referees from all across the country on Sunday at BFF House.
This course is being attended by 26 males, 4 females, along with 10 observers, summing up to 40 participants are taking part in it.
FIFA officials Ravichandran Chappanimutu and Alan Snoddy are conducting the course.
During the inauguration ceremony, BFF General Secretary Aby Nayeem Shohag, Referees Committee Deputy Chairman Haji Ibrahim Nesar and officials of the referees committee were present.
Center forward Haris Seferovic was most at fault, failing to hit the target with two first-half headed chances and a late shot lofted high over the goal.
Though Petkovic declined to criticize the Benfica forward, who was booed by some fans when substituted, the coach acknowledged a regular weakness of his 11th-ranked team.
“We have to be more clinical in front of goal,” Petkovic said through a translator. “We had to suffer to the end, especially with this chance Northern Ireland had.”
In the first of four stoppage-time minutes, Evans rose at the far post to meet a cross that goalkeeper Yann Sommer misjudged to leave himself stranded.
Rodriguez moved across the goalmouth toward the post and hooked the ball clear as he fell backward into the goal.
With their spot in Russia secured, the Swiss enter the pot of second-seeded teams for the World Cup draw on Dec. 1 in Moscow.
Now the challenge for arguably its most talented team in decades is to go beyond the last 16 at a major tournament.
In the past five years, the Swiss impressed in qualifying but failed to beat the best teams they faced – France twice, Argentina and Poland – at the 2014 World Cup and 2016 European Championship.
“We don’t really set limits for us. It could be even to the final,” said Petkovic, who should have his best players at their peak in Russia.
At 26, Xherdan Shaqiri is heading to his third World Cup, while Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka and Rodriguez are both 25 and have matured as standouts from the 2009 Under-17 World Cup-winning team.
All three now have at least 50 international appearances. None had been born the last time Northern Ireland played at a World Cup, in 1986.
