Sports Reporter :
Head Coach of Bangladesh Football team Jamie Day worked with the defenders at the Bangabandhu National Stadium (BNS) on Wednesday. Earlier, Day trained the midfielders and forwards at the same venue. Bangladesh Football squad have been taking part in the practice session to mark the rest of the matches of the Group-E of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers at Doha, the capital city of Qatar.
After yesterday’s training session, defender Rahmat Mia talked to the journalist on Wednesday. Rahmat said, ” Our Head Coach worked for a lot of time about our offence and attacking football. Today he gave effort for defensive football. He gave instruction how to do appropriate throw-in, corner kicks and how to recover if we miss the ball when we are engaged in defence.”
When asked about preparation, Rahmat Mia said, ” We took part in practice sessions but we also wanted to play some practice matches in Saudi Arabia. Because if we can play practice matches, we can find out our mistakes. If we can play friendly matches, we can understand our necessary steps in the matches of the World Cup qualifiers. So, I think if we can play practice matches, it will give us inspiration to play better brand of football.”
Bangladesh Football team will play a friendly match against Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club Limited at the country’s prime venue BNS today.
He said about the ensuing friendly match, ” Friendly match is just friendly match. The strength of opponent team are not factor. We have to find out our mistakes and come out from those mistakes.”
The three opponent teams of FIFA World Cup Qualifiers are stronger than Bangladesh. So, the defenders of Bangladesh have to face acid test against their opponent teams.
Rahmat Mia said, ” Our defence will try to concede goals to our opponent teams which will guide us to win the matches.”
Bangladesh Football team will leave the city for Doha tomorrow to play their rest of the Group-E matches of FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Bangladesh will face Afghanistan on June 3, meet India on June 7 and play against Oman on June 17.
