18 footballers of the national team including the assistant coach are corona positive.Of the 24 footballers reported in the first two days for joining the camp, 11 had corona positive. Excluding them, 22 players including 13 footballers and two local assistant coaches and physio’s went up to the resort in Gazipur. Where the residential camp of Bangladesh national football team has been held.
However, the new bad news for the national team is that 7 out of the 8 footballers who came to the camp on the first day have been found to have corona virus in their bodies. Of the 24 footballers in the first two days, 18 were positive.
It is learned that the names of the players who tested positive for corona in BFF were reported from the hospital. The rest have been taken to the entire resort in Gazipur for the negative. But on Friday, BFF found out that 8 out of the 7 footballers who came to the camp on the first day were not positive.
After being taken to the camp, BFF came to know that the corona report of 7 people was positive. They are: Faisal Ahmed Fahim, Manik Hossain Mollah, Manzurur Rahman Manik, Mohammad Abdullah, Yassin Arafat, Biplu Ahmed and Mahbubur Rahman Sufil. Only Pappu Hossain, who came to the camp on the first day, remained tax-free.
9 officials, including two local assistant coaches Syed Golam Jilani and Masood Parvez Kaiser and a physio, were also present at the camp. Among them, assistant coach Masood Parvez Kaiser’s corona has been positive.
18 footballers attacked by Corona
Bishwanath Ghosh, Nazmul Islam Russell, Sumon Reza, Matthews Bablu, Rabiul Hasan, Anisur Rahman Jiku, Shahidul Alam Sohel, Sohail Rana, Mohammad Ibrahim, Sushant Tripura, Tutul Hossain Badshah, Faisal Ahmed Fahim, Manik Hossain Mollah, Manzurur Rahman Manik, Abdullah, Yassin Arafat, Biplu Ahmed and Mahbubur Rahman Sufil.
News Room, August 08,2020