Bangladesh women’s futsal team leaves for Thailand

Sports Correspondent: Under the patronization of country’s local brand Walton Group, Bangladesh Women’s Futsal team left Dhaka for Thailand on Monday to participate for the first time in the AFC Women’s Futsal Championship.

Bangladesh Women’s Footbal team is going to take part in the tournament to be held in Thai capital Bangkok from May 2 through 12 only to gain experiences from the continental meet.

Fifteen Asian teams, split into four groups, will compete in the five-a-side women’s football tournament. The group champions and runners-up team will play in the quarterfinals.

Bangladesh, which was put in Group B of the tournament along with Malaysia, Vietnam and Chinese Taipei, will play Malaysia in one of the five opening day matches at 6:00pm local time at Bangkok Arena in Bangkok on May 2.

In the remaining group matches, Bangladesh will play Vietnam on May 3 at the same venue and face Chinese Taipei on May 6 at the Hua Mak Indoor Stadium, also in Bangkok.

Bangladesh women’s team will make their debut in the five-a-side Futsal tournament to gain experience in this format of football. Among the 14-member Bangladesh team, only captain Sabina Khatun has experience of playing the futsal in the Maldives domestic circuit in 2015 and 2016.  

Bangladesh coach Golam Rabbani Chotan said, “We have no definite target…. we want to get experience and exposures from the tournament. Among our opponents, Vietnam are the five-time runners-up in the South East Asian Games.”   

Bangladesh Women’s Futsal team: Rupna Chakma, Ruksana Begum, Sabina Khatun (captain), Krishna Rani Sarkar, Sirat Jahan Shopna, Masura Parvin, Akhi Khatun, Sanjida Akhter, Sheuli Azim. Anai Mogini, Maria Manda, Monika Chakma, Shamsun Nahar and Marzia.


risingbd/Dhaka/April 30, 2018/Aminul/AI