The Bangladesh Football Federation officially launched the \u2018Vision 2022: Road to Qatar World Cup\u2019 project by handing out two-year contracts to Dutch coaches
\nLodewijk de Kruif and Rene Koster at the BFF House on Thursday.
\nThe Dutch duo arrived in Dhaka on Thursday morning and signed the contract papers before the announcement was made.
\nAs per the contract, de Kruif and Koster will take charge of the national team from July 1 ahead of the forthcoming SAFF Championship in Nepal in September.
\nHead coach de Kruif expressed his surprise to see the project initiated by the governing body and he promised his assistance to the BFF to make it come true.
\n\u2018We are surprised to see the BFF\u2019s initiative of Vision 2022. It\u2019s a very good initiative and we should support that,\u2019 said the Dutch coach.
\n\u2018I want to give thanks to the BFF from both of us for inviting us in Bangladesh and finalising our contract. We are thankful to the BFF for giving us the opportunity to watch the Super Cup. We will see our players again and scout a little bit extra and come to a final decision about our selection,\u2019 said de Kruif.
\nHe was also confident about employing the right technique to Bangladesh football. \u2018It\u2019s not possible if you don\u2019t start. It\u2019s a long journey. Still nine years to go. So it\u2019s of course possible,\u2019 de Kruif added.
\n\u2018We want to implement the Dutch way of football and that is how we will start it. That will how the process will go and we are very curious about it. Players will watch to see how we are doing.\u2019
\n\u2018We have had a little bit of experience with the team playing in Nepal [AFC Challenge Cup qualifiers]. In the short period of time what we can say is that the players were very willing and adopted well, they wanted to change something and they wanted to put their name somewhere in the book.\u2019
\n\u2018There is a very good attitude and the people from the federation are very eager and very fanatic to get the result.\u2019
\n\u2018The cooperation is very good because we shared the same way of thinking that will help,\u2019 said de Kruif, who was named as the 16th foreign coach in the history of Bangladesh football.
\nBFF president Kazi Salahuddin was hopeful of realising the dream of qualifying for the Qatar World Cup in 2022.
\n\u2018From today [Thursday], we started our process for the Vision project with two foreign coaches and all the committees are working together with the football federation. Today we prom
\nise that we will qualify for the 2022 World Cup.
\nWe are ready to do everything to make it happen,\u2019 he said.
\nAssistant coach Koster will be assigned to the youth football academy in Sylhet. The academy is not yet fully ready and Salahuddin blamed the National Sports Council for the delay.
\n\u2018The government sanctioned me the money four of five months ago to repair the Sylhet academy which they gave it to the NSC. Finance minister [Abul Maal Abdul Muhith] gave them the money for some renovation work,\u2019 said Salahuddin.
\n\u2018I don\u2019t know why they [NSC] didn\u2019t start work yet. The NSC secretary
\nknows better why the academy is not ready yet. I can\u2019t deal with him [NSC secretary] anymore so I don\u2019t have anything to say about that,\u2019 Salahuddin said angrily.<\/p>\n

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