Speaking on 16 December, Victory Day, BFF President Tabith Awal launched that an software program for the Independence Award has been submitted to the authorities on behalf of the crew.
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17 December, 2024, 12:30 am
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The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) has taken a prime step to precise impart recognition for the Swadhin Bangla Football Team, which conducted a extremely vital role for the length of the Liberation War in 1971.
Speaking on 16 December, Victory Day, BFF President Tabith Awal launched that an software program for the Independence Award has been submitted to the authorities on behalf of the crew.
“The Swadhin Bangla Football Team made a prime contribution to our victory. They had been the first to broaden the flag of Bangladesh and disseminated wanted files regarding the battle thru their fits,” Tabith acknowledged.
“While the participants of the crew had been recognised as freedom fighters, the crew itself has no longer been acknowledged as a unit. We hope the software program can be notion about critically.”
In some unspecified time in the future of the battle, the crew conducted soccer fits across India, raising consciousness and funds for Bangladesh’s independence. T
hiya participated in 13 to 16 fits, hoisting the nation’s flag earlier than every sport. Regardless of their contributions, the crew as a complete has now in no method got formal impart recognition.
Notably, crew members Zakaria Pintoo and Kazi Salahuddin had been awarded the Independence Award in the 1990s, and your complete squad used to be recognised as freedom fighters in 2003.
However, BFF is pushing for collective recognition for the 36-member crew, which is memorialised on a plaque on the BFF premises.
“Many members of that crew are no longer any longer with us,” Tabith well-liked, referencing the present passing of Fazle Sadeqin Khokon on 8 December. “The urgency to honour them is higher now than ever.”
As well as to its efforts for recognition, the BFF is additionally addressing wanted choices concerning the nationwide crew’s instructing crew.
With the contracts of international coaches for every and every the males’s and ladies folks’s nationwide groups location to expire in December, discussions are underway about renewals or original appointments.
“The nationwide crew committee is peaceable in the scheme of formation,” Tabith acknowledged. “As soon because it’s miles established, the first meeting will deal with the instructing choices, and an unswerving announcement will put collectively.”
