Booters’ residential training camp begins today

All the national footballers are set to back into business as the residential training camp of the national team against Afghanistan for joint qualifiers of Qatar World Cup and AFC Asian Cup begins today (Friday) in the city.
The preliminary selected 26 booters have been asked to report to team manager Satyajit Das Rupu with necessary sports gears today (Friday) at 6 pm at Fars’ Hotel and Resort.
Bangladesh will play their first match of the qualifiers against Afghanistan on September 10 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
National team’s head coach Jamie Day, however, have to start the camp without seven Abahani players, who are with the club for AFC Cup’s inter-zone semifinal playoffs on August 21 and 28.
The English born coach will get the full squad from the second-phase training camp to be held in Dushanbe.
The national team is expected to leave for Tajikistan on September 1. In Dushanbe, the squad will have intensive training there and will play two preparation matches against Tajikistan Premier League clubs on September 3 and 5.
Squad: Ashraful Islam Rana, Sahidul Alam, Anisur Rahman, Mohammad Mazharul Islam, Tutul Hossain Badsha, Sushanto Tripura, Rahmat Mia, S M Monjurur Rahman, Yeasin Khan, Bishwanath Ghosh, Riyadul Hasan, Nurul Naium Faisal, Yeasin Arafat, Masuk Miah Zoni, Jamal Bhuiyan, Mamunul Islam Mamun, Sohel
Rana, Mohammad Rabiul Hasan, Biplo Ahamed, Mohammad Arifur Rahman, Mohammad Ibrahim, Mohammad Nabib Newaz Ziban, Mahbubur Rahman, Matin Miah, Saad Uddin and Jewel Rana.