Football requires rethink

Only the high-ups of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) would be able to tell how much impact its extravagant experiment of sending two different 'national' teams to India and Malaysia this month will have in the near future.

With the SAFF Championship due this December, the footballers will get just four months to prepare in a bid to regain the regional trophy they gave up to India in December 2005. Lack of preparation, however, was evident in Bangladesh's games in the Nehru Cup where they even failed to beat Cambodia, whose last-gasp equaliser forced a 1-1 draw -- the only point Bangladesh earned in the five-team round robin league.

While hosts India began their preparation months ago, and played five warm-up matches in Portugal, the Bangladeshi footballers did not even get the chance to know their teammates properly as they camped for less than two weeks after playing the inaugural professional league for six months.

The last time Bangladesh played in the SAFF Championship, under Argentine coach Diego Cruciani, they got four months to unite and reached the final. To be one of the final pairing again in Sri Lanka and Maldives, who host the eight-nation meet jointly, the BFF must start implementing its plans now. And football's governing body must only not concentrate on the only plan it had shown in the past: Long-term camp and no preparation matches.

Football requires rethink

Only the high-ups of the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) would be able to tell how much impact its extravagant experiment of sending two different 'national' teams to India and Malaysia this month will have in the near future.

With the SAFF Championship due this December, the footballers will get just four months to prepare in a bid to regain the regional trophy they gave up to India in December 2005. Lack of preparation, however, was evident in Bangladesh's games in the Nehru Cup where they even failed to beat Cambodia, whose last-gasp equaliser forced a 1-1 draw -- the only point Bangladesh earned in the five-team round robin league.

While hosts India began their preparation months ago and played five warm-up matches in Portugal, the Bangladeshi footballers did not even get the chance to know their teammates properly as they camped for less than two weeks after playing the inaugural professional league for six months.

The last time Bangladesh played in the SAFF Championship, under Argentine coach Diego Cruciani, they got four months to unite and reached the final. To be one of the final pairing again in Sri Lanka and Maldives, who host the eight-nation meet jointly, the BFF must start implementing its plans now. And football's governing body must only not concentrate on the only plan it had shown in the past: Long-term camp and no preparation matches.

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England wins comfortably!

Buoyant England coach Steve McClaren has roared out a warning to the rest of Europe - there is more to come from us.

England backed up their three-goal triumph over Israel at the weekend by dismantling major group E rivals Russia at Wembley to take a massive stride towards Euro 2008. Michael Owen's first-half double, plus a late strike from Rio Ferdinand - his first England goal in over five years - secured a comfortable win which leaves McClaren's men requiring just five points from their remaining three games to qualify, providing one of them comes in Russia next month.

The result was more remarkable given England were without Wayne Rooney, Owen Hargreaves, Frank Lampard and David Beckham. And the absence of that illustrious quartet, plus veteran defender Gary Neville, is one of the major reasons why McClaren is so bullish about the improvement still to come

Source: Soccernet.com