Pioneer football kicks off Tuesday
Dhaka, March 2: The Dhaka South and North City Corporation Pioneer Football League , co-sponsored by Aarong Diary comprising 60 clubs starts across five venues of the capital on Tuesday.
The official inauguration will be held at the Paltan Ground with LGRD minister Syed Ashraful Islam inaugurating the meet as the chief guest.
This year, the organisers have chosen 'Today's youth, tomorrow's star' as the slogan of the U-16 tournament.
In a press conference held at the BFF House Monday, the vice president of BFF and deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan Joy expressed hope of producing the future stars through this tournament. “Last year we saw a good number of talented footballers in the meet and many of them were selected for different training programmes, we want to continue the trend” said Joy.
The vice chairman of the Pioneer League organising committee Bijon Barua, AGM of BRAC Enterprise HUM Mehdi Sajjad, city corporation officials Khandaker Millatul Islam and Abdul Hai were also present on the occasion.