BFF and Islami Bank sign MOU of National School Championship
Dhaka, Nov 30: Bangladesh Football Federation and Islami Bank Bangladesh signed a MOU over the National School Championship 2011 likely to start from the last week December next at Hotel Purbani on Wednesday.
Islami Bank Bangladesh, as the title sponsor of the tournament will provide a purse Tk. five crore. Plan Bangladesh as the co-sponsor is giving Ten Thousand footballs. Ashiyan City and Pran Group are also involved with the tournament as co-sponsors.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to inaugurate the championship as chief guest.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid was focusing on building of moral character, physical fitness of our future generation through sports. “We have goal to flourish our students’ mental and physical from this meet. We need to physical and mental improvement of our students. Because only study cannot improve our nation. So sports will help the students to build up their strong character” said the minister.
Chairman of Islami Bank Abunaser Md. Abdus Zaher was happy to be part of this meet. We thank Bangladesh Football Federation for giving us opportunity to be title sponsor of this championship. Our bank and its people will help to complete the meet properly. I hope Islami Bank and Ministry of Education jointly will search the diamond booters from this games.
Chairman of executive committee of school football and chairman of ATN Bangla Dr. Mahfuzur Rahman hoped to put a positive impact.” We want to drive out drug addiction from whole Bangladesh through football. Five thousand schools are taking part this meet. We will create a history to organize the biggest championship in Bangladesh.” said Mahfuz.
Acting President of BFF Abdus Salam Murshedi is hopefull for developing our football level through school football. If we want to develop our country football, we have to organize school football every year because only school football can help to develop our national level” said Murshedi.
Executive Director of Islami Bank Eskander Ali khan, Chanel i Managing Director Foridur Reza Sagor, Plan Bangladesh Chairman TM Zahid Hasan, BFF Vice President Badal Roy, Deputy Managing Director of Islami Bank Habibur Rahman, School Football Ambassador Md Riaz, Deputy Chairman of
National School Football Md Aslam were also present on the occasion.