SAFF Football Championship 2008

Mohiul · #1 May 27, 2008, 05:07 AM

Bangladesh team left Dhaka for SAFF championship. Coach & Captain both had a optimistic talk before they leave as usual. Can they keep their words intact this time?

Squad: Aminul Haq (captain), Biplob Bhattacharya, Hasan Al Mamun, Wali Faisal, Ariful Islam, Rajani Kanta Barman, Arup Kumar Badya, Atiqur Islam Mishu, Mofazzal Hossain Saikat, Nazrul Islam, Enamul Haq Sharif, Faisal Mahmud, Jahed Parvez Chowdhury, Mamunul Islam, Arif Khan Joy, Abul Hossain, Arman Aziz, Mehdi Hasan Ujjal, Jahid Hasan Emily and Abdul Baten Kamol.

Fixture:

June 4 - Bangladesh vs Bhutan
June 6 – Bangladesh vs Afghanistan
June 8 – Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka

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ROLL OF HONOUR

Year	Champions	Runners up	Venue
1993	India	Sri Lanka	Lahore, Pakistan
1995	Sri Lanka	India	Colombo, Sri Lanka
1997	India	Maldives	Kathmandu, Nepal
1999	India	Bangladesh	Goa, India
2003	Bangladesh	Maldives	Dhaka, Bangladesh
2005	India	Bangladesh	Karachi, Pakistan

Shehwar · #2 May 27, 2008, 06:07 AM

Hmm.....We made it to the finals the last three times! I'll be happy if we can just keep that up....Srilanka thrashed Pakistan 7-1 a few days back and we all know what Afghanistan did recently!....Unbelievable as it may sound ... WE ARE IN A TOUGH GROUP!!! .... Had I said that about 20 years back ppl would have started throwing stones at me thinking I've gone totally mad!!!

Mohiul · #3 May 27, 2008, 09:43 AM

there are four foriegn-based player in pak squad. follow the link to get the full squad and news in detail.

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bdchamp20 · #4 May 27, 2008, 10:43 AM

Where is Mohammad Sujan? He is supposedly the country's best centre-back and plays for Abahani. Arif Khan Joy back in Bangladesh team, is he still as good as he was? I heard Anwaruddin the British-Bangladeshi footballer and captain of Dagenham and Redbridge was going to play for Bangladesh from now on. Anyway good luck Bangladesh, as long as you make the finals I'm happy.

Rabz · #5 May 27, 2008, 12:49 PM

Its pretty much Indians for the taking.
Only thing left to be seen is whether the rest can match 'em.

Realisticly,we'd hv to climb a big freagin mountain to touch that cup.

On the contrary, the word "SAFF Championship" works magic to our boys.
It IS our world cup. so lets hope the boys can pull a miracle here.

Nocturnal · #6 May 27, 2008, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by bdchamp20
Where is Mohammad Sujan? He is supposedly the country's best centre-back and plays for Abahani. Arif Khan Joy back in Bangladesh team, is he still as good as he was? I heard Anwaruddin the British-Bangladeshi footballer and captain of Dagenham and Redbridge was going to play for Bangladesh from now on. Anyway good luck Bangladesh, as long as you make the finals I'm happy.

Sujan had a very prolonged injury problem and he didn't play a single game for Abahani last year.......but finally it seems like he is in good shape now and signed for another one year contract with Abahani. So, he needs to prove himself and hopefully we will see him in the national team near future.

bdchamp20 · #7 May 29, 2008, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Nocturnal
Sujan had a very prolonged injury problem and he didn't play a single game for Abahani last year.......but finally it seems like he is in good shape now and signed for another one year contract with Abahani. So, he needs to prove himself and hopefully we will see him in the national team near future.

Good to know. Thanks, Nocturnal.

Mohiul · #8 May 29, 2008, 09:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Rabz
Its pretty much Indians for the taking.
Only thing left to be seen is whether the rest can match 'em.

Realisticly,we'd hv to climb a big freagin mountain to touch that cup.

On the contrary, the word "SAFF Championship" works magic to our boys.
It IS our world cup. so lets hope the boys can pull a miracle here.

Don't write off Maldives. I think they're quite a formidable side now as they drew with south korea 0-0. Srilanka is a good side as well. Very recently they beat Pak team by 7-1 in an AFC Challenge Cup qualification match.

Mohiul · #9 May 30, 2008, 11:10 AM

the last and final practice match is drawn by the BD team with a Thai club

source of news

Tigers_eye · #10 May 30, 2008, 11:24 AM

If I remember correctly Abahani once visited Maldives and beat their national side 9-1 or something. Or was it in our land? Nevertheless, the difference of class was there. Now our national team gets out classed by theirs'? What sad stages I am witnessing for BD Football.

I had such a high hope when BKSP was stablished. Thought they would spit out world class players. At least the fitness level would be up there to play 90 mins. It seems like BKSP is spitting out garbage players. We went downhill.

thebest · #11 May 30, 2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tigers_eye
If I remember correctly Abahani once visited Maldives and beat their national side 9-1 or something. Or was it in our land? .

it was in Dhaka and I think it was predecessor of Asian Champion League againest Champion of Male league. If my memory serve me right then it was 8-0 in Abahoni's favor at BNS. I think Premlal scored a hatric on that match

Tigers_eye · #12 May 30, 2008, 03:47 PM

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Originally Posted by thebest
it was in Dhaka and I think it was predecessor of Asian Champion League againest Champion of Male league. If my memory serve me right then it was 8-0 in Abahoni's favor at BNS. I think Premlal scored a hatric on that match

Thank you. Yes, the margin was 8 that I remember. We use to compete with Thailand mano against mano. Now just the name Thailand gets us down by 0-4. Actual game results has a scoreline of 6+ to nothing etc. The era of our green, red teams would compete with sides who would trounce the current BD national team.

Nocturnal · #13 May 30, 2008, 10:14 PM

SAFF squad draw with Bek Toro
Sports Reporter - link

Bangladesh national football team shared a goalless draw with Bek Toro Sasana FC in their final warm-up match in Bangkok before leaving the Thailand capital for Colombo last night.

Bek Toro, two-time Thai league champions and runners-up of the inaugural AFC Champions League in 2003, dominated the show but captain Aminul Haque was in tremendous form at the Bangladesh goal, foiling a series of rival raids.

Bangladesh, who played the match as part of their SAFF Football Championship preparation, created two great chances but striker Emily and substitute midfielder Faisal Mahmud fluffed their efforts.

Team manager Sheikh Mohammed Aslam informed the Bangladesh Football Federation over phone that the management including coach Abu Yusuf was happy to draw the match against a strong side, who have eight Thai internationals.

The management also thought that this draw would boost the team's confidence ahead of their SAFF opener against Bhutan on June 4 in Colombo.

Bangladesh, who play Afghanistan and co-hosts Sri Lanka on June 6 and 8 respectively, were expected to land in the Sri Lankan capital in early hours today.

Bangladesh's first preparation match in Bangkok was postponed due to heavy rain.

Rabz · #14 June 1, 2008, 10:08 AM

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Originally Posted by thebest
it was in Dhaka and I think it was predecessor of Asian Champion League againest Champion of Male league. If my memory serve me right then it was 8-0 in Abahoni's favor at BNS. I think Premlal scored a hatric on that match

ah...those were the golden days of our football...
hopefully Salahuddin and gong can bring about the much needed changes to take us to a new height.... good height that is....

Mohiul · #15 June 2, 2008, 11:29 AM

ATN Bangla gonna show BD matches live

source of news

Mohiul · #16 June 3, 2008, 08:41 AM

Title holder open their retaining campign with confident start by demolishing Nepal with a scoreline of 4-0

Mohiul · #17 June 3, 2008, 10:39 AM

You can follow Maldives phase of SAFF championship live by getting registered to the following link

http://www.maldivesoccer.net/v4/i-so...p?page=webcast