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President Cup hockey tournament to begin Nov.16
DHAKA, Nov 4, 2020 (BSS)- Like the other sports federations, the Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) is also on the move as the federation is going to roll the hockey this month after a prolong eight months recess due to COVID-19 pandemic.
The BHF will host the President Cup Hockey tournament starting from November 16 at the Moulana Bhasani National Hockey Stadium, informed the BHF acting general secretary Mohammad Yousuf to BSS today.
He said six teams, including four services teams, would take part in the tournament. The services teams are Bangladesh Navy, Bangladesh Air force, Bangladesh Army and Bangladesh Police.
Yousuf said they would divide their U-21 hockey team into two teams which will be the remaining two teams of the tournament.
After the president Cup hockey, the Victory Day hockey competition will be held in December, he added.
Asked when the practice of the senior hockey team will start for Champions Trophy Hockey, he said no decision has taken in this regards yet because we are now thinking to roll the premier league before the senior team’s training camp ….. we have a meeting with league committee on November 12 and it’ll be depend on the outcome of the meeting when the camp will start because there is still a long way to go to start the Champions Trophy.
The Bangladesh men’s hockey team is scheduled to contest the major international tournament after over the twenty one months after the Asian Games held in Indonesia backed in 2018.
The competition was originally scheduled for November this year in Dhaka, but the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) has rescheduled the biennial event to March 11-19 next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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