National teams register victory
Dhaka, September 29: Both Bangladesh national teams ‘A’ and ‘B’ registered victories over U-19 ‘A’ and U-22 ‘B’ respectively in the practice matches at the Bangabandhu National Stadium on Thursday.
The national ‘A’ team beat U-19 ‘A’ by 2-1 goals in the third match. Masud Rana of the U-19 team put his team ahead capitalizing a defence lapse but the seniors bounced back to the winning ways with a headed effort of defender Ariful off a Mamunul Islam freekick and Towhidul Alam scored the second with a nice tap off a Towhidul Alam Sobuj cross.
In the second match Alamgir Kabir Rana, Sohel and Linkon scored for the national ‘B’ team in the facile 3-0 victory.
In the first match U-19 ‘B’ and U-‘22’ played out a goalless draw.
National coach Nikola Ilievski was happy with the performance of the national team. “Though the field was not in a good condition but I am happy with the performance, this type of practice matches will help the footballers to increase their controlling power and they were disciplined today” said Ilievski.
“However I am not happy with the U-19 boys today, they committed a lot of mistakes and I will arrange a special session for them” said the Macedonian.