BNS for Football, Permanently

[Rubu]

Bango Bondhu National stedium is finally for football and football only, starting 1st march 2005.

Prothom-Alo Report (http://www.prothom-alo.net/newhtmlnews1/category.php?CategoryID=9&Date=2004-06-23)

so, what gonna be cricket vanues? will the new mirpur (?) stedium be done before that?

is this decision justified? its been one of the issue that has been discussed most, and has lots of opinion. i guess this is the final time we need to do that.
what u think?

[Edited on 23-6-2004 by AgentSmith : grrrrrr Carte]

[billah]

The Mirpur stadium is ready and playable, from what I saw in January. If you want to hold a tournament, you could do with with a few weeks preperation. However, BCB is going to turn it to a modern facility with all amenities, including gym, better lights, better seating, new pressboxes, state of the art media center etc. BCB will have an office there also. The planning is done already. I don't know if they have projected a timeframe for the project. Regardless, it is a developed ground, much bigger than BNS.

[Edited on 22-6-2004 by billah]

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

jaihok,
BNC becoming permanently for football or Mirpur becoming permanently for cricket or vise versa....erokom khobor kintu ar age ontoto hajar bar dekhlam. akhon ai shob khobor dekhte dekhte chokh poche jachhe. shutorang shesh porjonto oi deadline par howar por jodi kono change na hoi taholai ami oi khobor bishhash korbo. na hole ami korbo na. karon dekha jai erokom khobor prokash howar por abar football ar cricket ar bithok hoi. boithoke jothariti torkatorki hoi. tarpor abar shob olotpalot hoi. its just a copy of what goes on in the parliament. dannabad.

[Carte Blanche]

Umm.. I hope we are talking about BNS here. Unless it got renamed recently.

[Huda]

so our National staduim will be for football only. Ok, so where will we move, like which will be our main stadium in Bangladesh? The main focal point?

Btw are they taking out the floodlight system out the stadium or keeping it for football, there considered as one the best in the world

[Shehwar]

Man..!!!...This is such an awful decision..We all know football has no future..!!...The national stadium should only be used for cricket..They spent so much money on it..!!...Got the best flood lights in the world and also a fantastic electronic scorecard..!!...Hey..!..They are also making a stadium in Fatullah..right..?..Whats that for..?..

[Huda]

Originally posted by Shehwar
Man..!!!...This is such an awful decision..We all know football has no future..!!...The national stadium should only be used for cricket..They spent so much money on it..!!...Got the best flood lights in the world and also a fantastic electronic scorecard..!!...Hey..!..They are also making a stadium in Fatullah..right..?..Whats that for..?..

yeah they are, its already made, and was used in the U-19 WC, but they are going to add new buildings to it, i heard. AND ITS CRICKET ONLY!

[Edited on 23-6-2004 by Huda]

[AsifTheManRahman]

what the heck! this is sooooo.....

[200SX]

well if cricket is gettin mirpur stadium thts not bad, but need to thnk first tht mirpur got all fascilities like BNS. officials r sayin tht mirpur has all the fascilities like BNS which billah discribes b4. but thing is these have to b true n finis b4 the timeline........otherwise BCB shudnt let it go easily......Coz BNS is a worldclass cricket stadium......n if cricket gettin a same class of stadium then it will b fair enough.:fanflag:

[Huda]

Originally posted by 200SX
well if cricket is gettin mirpur stadium thts not bad, but need to thnk first tht mirpur got all fascilities like BNS. officials r sayin tht mirpur has all the fascilities like BNS which billah discribes b4. but thing is these have to b true n finis b4 the timeline........otherwise BCB shudnt let it go easily......Coz BNS is a worldclass cricket stadium......n if cricket gettin a same class of stadium then it will b fair enough.:fanflag:

is this a new stadium beign built mirpur? never heard of it, where is it near? anyone got a photos of the stadium or construction site where it is being built?

[200SX]

is this a new stadium beign built mirpur? never heard of it, where is it near? anyone got a photos of the stadium or construction site where it is being built?



no they r renovating the Sher-e-bangla stadium for cricket...........

[Nasif]

Originally posted by Huda
is this a new stadium beign built mirpur? never heard of it, where is it near? anyone got a photos of the stadium or construction site where it is being built?

Can't give you picture of the stadium but you can see a game that was going on in that stadium:
<img src=http://www.bangladeshobserveronline.com/monday/sp.jpg>

[billah]

is this a new stadium beign built mirpur? never heard of it, where is it near? anyone got a photos of the stadium or construction site where it is being built?

Huda: I hope you know about the Mirpur Stadium. It starts right at the bus stop of Section 2, next to the telephone exchange building. The stadium runs the entire length of section 2 all the way to section 6. . The width is from section 2 to section 10. It is the largest stadium Bangladesh has. Now, the Australians gifted us the improvement plans for free. The improvement work should be under way now. I think it is indeed projected to be finished before BCC moves in. BCC is going to use the BNS 'til March, '05.

[Edited on 23-6-2004 by billah]

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

achha keo ki amake mirpur stadium ar dharon khomota bolte parbe?
jaihok,
purbe kintu bafufe kintu bolechilo je tara mirpur nite chai na karon mirpur onek dure ebong ato dure keo khela dekhte jete chai na. but tara nijeder dosh ta akhon stadium ar upor zharte chai. popularity jodi khelar thake tahole manush emni dekhte jabe. cricket ar ai bishoye kono bhoi pawar kono karon ache bole ami mone kori na. tara jodi dorshokder bhalo khela upohar dite shokkhom hoi tahole ami sure manush khela dekhte jabe. dannabad.

[billah]

FRB: I remember this piece of information from when it was being constructed. If fully built, it will be able to hold 60,000 people, is what I remember. It's a huge ground.

[Kana-Baba]

Honestly, I don’t care about the BNS. Our cricket has reached to a level, where we do not need BNS anymore. Let those gunda’s of BFF to take over BNS. I want to see what these stupid can do with BNS. As BFF have BNS now, we should qualify for WC Football. Right?

[Edited on 24-6-2004 by Kana-Baba]

[Rubu]

oh yeah! our national football team will not be able to compete with korea u13 team.

[billah]

Kana-Baba said the right thing. Its all dirty big club politics. They've been playing shoddy business with gate-money for a long time. They even tried to blackmail cricket. Thanks to Corporate League, that scheme failed. Football is in the gutter. BFF should not even have the Fatullah stadium. Going by our FIFA ratings, Soccer should be played exclusively in high school grounds outside Dhaka. :)

[Zephaniah]

Spot on BCB. My understanding about Mirpur stadium is it's bigger, better and going to have state-of-the-art facilities thanks to Cricket Australia's advice on master planning and BCB's forward thinking. There is no question about it's grandiosity as it was mainly built for the SAFF game first staged in BD. As BCB is thinking of setting up a national cricket academy like all other test playing nations they could come up with no other idea than transforming Mirpur stadium into one. Even though BNS was built as a focal point of East pakistani cricket it's no longer contextually correct nor strategically placed to be nucleus of test playing Bangladesh. Structure wise it's on the verge of falling apart. It has no space around it to carry out even minor development works. And everytime BD played an international match there foreign media were keen to assert what a mammoth task it was to transport teams from Hotel Sheraton/Sonargaon to BNS due to traffic jams in Motijheel Business District area which sould be a merely 15 minutes bus ride at best. As planned if Mirpur stadium has all indoor facilities then national team practice would be held there without relying heavily on BKSP. I think it'll make a good international venue too. Can we just have a fast-bouncy practice pitch or two there please?

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

ji bhai,
if we have mirpur stadium for cricket then actually it will be more helpful for us. because then we wont have to switch back and forth between dhaka and bksp which will save us a lot of time. let bff have bns. who cares!!!!!!!!!!! shalara pare no to ar ki kore. akbar media ar dosh dai akbar stadium ar dosh dai. nachte na janle uthan baka. ora hochhe aitar utkirshto udahoron. dannabad.