Bangladesh national football team reached
Bengaluru safely on Friday night to take part in the SAFF Championship which
will be held from June 21 to July 4 in India.
The Jamal Bhuan and Co. departed from Phnom Penh, the capital and most
populous city of Cambodia, on Friday afternoon and reached at the team hotel
at 1.30 am after completing their formalities at the airport.
Bangladesh, which pitted at group B in the eight-nation SAFF Championship,
will start their campaign when they will face upper ranked Lebanon on June
22, one day after the formal kicks off of the championship (June 21).
The remaining two group matches will be held on June 25 and 28.
Bangladesh will play against Maldives on June 25 at 4 pm (BST) and face
Bhutan on June 28 at 8 pm (BST). All the matches will be held at Sri
Kanteerava Stadium.
Before the SAFF Championship mission, the Cambodia mission of the Bangladesh
football team was a success. Bangladesh beat local premier league club Tiffy
Army FC by 1-0 goal in the practice match and defeated host Cambodia also by
the same identical margin in the FIFA Tier-1 International Friendly match.
The booters confidence level has boosted than before at the moment after
winning two matches in Cambodia.
Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha