The bleak state of country’s athletics was evident as 39th National Athletics Championship was concluded on Saturday without a single new record, leaving very little optimism for medals in the forthcoming South Asian Games. Bangladeshi athletes won only two silver medals and four bronze medals in the last edition of SA Games held in Dhaka in ... Read more
Month: September 2015
Of promise and despair: Bangladesh’s foreign coaches
With the arrival of Fabio Lopez, the number of foreign football coaches for the Bangladesh national team moved to 17. All of them have come with lots of promise but with a few exception most of them failed to deliver any significant result. As a consequence, many of them had to leave with bitter experiences. The ... Read more
Zia shines in Baku again
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman held Russian Super GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in second successive match of the World Cup chess opening round in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday. Zia played with black against 2758-rated Tomashevsky, the 12th seeded player of the tournament, and secured a draw after 29 moves. The first match between them
Mezbah, Shirin reign supreme
Mezbahuddin Ahmed and Shirin Akter of Bangladesh Navy were crowned country’s fastest man and woman once again when they won their respective 100-metre sprint in the 39th National Athletics in Dhaka on Friday. Mezbah now took the honour to four consecutive meetings starting from Bangladesh Games in 2013. Mezbah clocked 10:60 seconds to beat his
Zia hold Russian Super GM in WC chess
Grand Master Ziaur Rahman remained on course to a second round place in the World Cup Chess when he drew with super Grandmaster Evgeny Tomashevsky of Russia in the first game of the opening round in Baku, Azerbaijan on Friday. Zia played with white pieces with Queen’s Pawn Opening and secured a draw after the 43rd ... Read more
Win all that matters, says Fabio Lopez
New Bangladesh national football coach Fabio Lopez said he doesn’t mind playing ugly if it takes him to win a match. The Italian explained his football philosophy in an interview with New Age at his hotel on Friday. Here is the excerpts:
Tangail Int’l Rating Chess begins
The Tangail International Rating Chess tournament began at the Bangabandhu Auditorium of Tangail Press Club on Friday. The five-day tournament is organised by the Bangladesh Chess Federation in association with Tangail District Sports Association. A total of 125 local players along with four Indians are participating in the event, which has total prize money
Italian Lopez replaces Kruif
The Bangladesh Football Federation on Thursday appointed Italian Fabio Lopez as the head coach of national team for four months replacing him with Dutchman Lodewijk de Kruif. An emergency meeting of the BFF also confirmed the appointment of Lopez’s two compatriots, assistant coach Costantino Zuccarini and fitness coach Angelo Pavia
Fitness Hathuru’s major priority
Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe said on Thursday his priority will be to improve the fitness of the players ahead of their home series against Australia as it is expected to play a crucial part. The Bangladesh Cricket Board held a fitness camp of 27 elite players from August 22 under trainer Mario Villavarayan before Hathurusinghe took ... Read more
Archery’s golden day in Samoa
Archer Mohammad Tamimul Islam gave Bangladesh rare success in an international meet when he won a gold medal of the boys’ recurve bow individual event in the 5th Commonwealth Youth Games in Samoa on Thursday. Tamimul defeated India’s Nishanth Kumawat in the final to clinch the gold. Bangladesh also won a bronze medal on Thursday thanks
No bar on Shahadat playing in NCL
Pace bowler Shahadat Hossain has no bar on playing in the upcoming National Cricket League despite him facing the arrest for allegedly beating his domestic help, said a Bangladesh Cricket Board official on Thursday. ‘He can participate in the National Cricket League, there is no problem with it,’ Sheikh Sohel, the chairman of BCB’s disciplinary committee,
‘Only my bosses can decide this’
Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusinghe on Thursday sidetracked the question regarding his chances of touring India with the ‘A’ team. With most of the national players touring to India with the ‘A’ team, Hathurusinghe will be left alone to coach only a handful of senior players, who nonetheless will be involved in the National Cricket League during ... Read more
England claim ICRC title
England clinched the five-nation ICRC Twenty20 tournament for the physically challenged people after defeating Pakistan by 19 runs in the final at the BKSP on Thursday. After scoring 175-4, the highest score of the tournament, England restricted Pakistan to 156-7 to seal the first ever tournament of such kind.
Nat’l Athletics : Shariful, Shirin win 200m gold
Shariful Islam and Shirin Akter retained their 200-metre gold medals as the 39th National Athletics Championship began at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday. Shariful of Bangladesh Army beat BKSP’s Saiful Islam to clinch the gold medal clocking 21.78 seconds, 0.07 seconds clear of Saiful while Mehedi Hasan of Bangladesh Army
BCB split over ‘A’ team personnel
The Bangladesh Cricket Board has become a divided house in choosing the team management for the upcoming national ‘A’ team’s tour to India with high-ups frequently changing their minds. The BCB decided to form a strong Bangladesh ‘A’ team for the tour consisting three one-day matches and two three-day games as it included 14 players ... Read more
Nasir prefers ‘A’ team tour over NCL
Middle-order batsman Nasir Hossain said on Wednesday that playing against India ‘A’ team is a better option than participating in the National Cricket League. Nasir was chosen as the vice-captain of Bangladesh ‘A’ team that will tour to India from September 13 to 29 for a series compromising with three one-day matches
Mamunul focuses on future
National football team skipper Mamunul Islam rued the mistakes against Jordan but he wants to keep them aside now and focus on the forthcoming Kyrgyzstan game on October 13 at Bishkek. Bangladesh have played four games, including three in the home, so far in their current campaign of World Cup qualifiers to fetch just a ... Read more
Italian Lopez set to replace de Kruif
The Bangladesh Football Federation is likely to appoint Italian Fabio Lopez as the next national football team coach replacing him with Dutchman Lodwijk de Kruif, officials said on Wednesday. The 42-year old Rome-born Italian held a meeting with the BFF high-up on Wednesday and his appointment could be announced today. Lopez will succeed Kruif,
Improved hosts concede four
Hosts Bangladesh came out of their defensive mindset to play some entertaining football but paid the price for their lack of experience as they suffered a 0-4 defeat against Jordan in their World Cup qualifying match in Dhaka on Tuesday. Much criticised for their ultra-defensive football against Australia in the previous match, which at times appeared ... Read more
De Kruif laments poor defending
Bangladesh coach Lodewijk de Kruif blamed his defenders for a big defeat against Jordan despite their spirited show in their World Cup qualifying match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Tuesday. Buoyed on by their home advantage, Bangladesh took a positive approach in the game attacking Jordan, ranking-wise a much superior side, whenever they had an ... Read more