DHAKA, Nov 7, 2018 (BSS)- Bangladesh Olympic women’s football team take on
host Myanmar in their opening group C match of the Women’s Olympic Football
Tournament 2020 Asian Qualifiers round 1 scheduled to be held tomorrow
(Thursday) at Thuwunna Stadium in Yangon.
The match kicks off at 6 pm (local time).
Addressing at a pre-match press conference today (Wednesday) Bangladesh’s
team head coach Golam Robbani Choton and Bangladesh team’s skipper Sabina
expressed their high hope to have a good result for the country.
“We came here to learn more and lot from this tournament…… team has
been undergoing good preparation for last one year…… we’ll try our best
for having good a result and also will try to play good football in this
tournament,” Choton said at a pre match press conference.
He said all the participating teams are strong in this Group so it would
be a great opportunity for her girls to learn more.
Choton also hoped that his girls would give their best effort and play
competitive football in this tournament.
Bangladesh team’s captain Sabina said: “We’ll give our best effort in all
the matches… Myanmar is a strong team and it will be the first time we are
playing match against Myanmar, we will play a good match tomorrow, Please
play for us.”
Myanmar head coach Win Thu Moe said: “We are the favorite in this group
and also we are in good position in FIFA ranking …..we played some friendly
matches against China and Japan as a part of preparation …….we’ll try to
win all the matches to qualify for the next round.
Bangladesh is now a good organized team but have less experience than us.
So they also have chance to do good result because two team can qualify from
each Group, he added.
Bangladesh will play their second group match against India on November
11, will meet Nepal in their last group match on November 13 at the same
venue.