Bangladesh national football team completed their first training session at All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) ground after reaching Kathmandu in Nepal on Friday.
Goalkeeping coach Les Cleevely joined the team the same day. All the players and staff tested corona negative. Les Cleevely, who reached Nepal on that day morning, was also found negative during the test.
Earlier, Bangladesh team reached Kathmandu on last Thursday and all the members of the contingent gave their samples for COVID-19 tests.
The Green and Red did an hour-long gym and swimming sessions under the head coach Jamie Day at the hotel in the morning. Later in the afternoon, the team worked on ball possession during their on-field session at the ANFA ground. Goalkeeper Anisur Rahman Zico was very excited to see Cleevely joining the team.
“All of us have tested COVID-19 negative. We did a gym and training. oalkeeping coach Les joined us. We now have a full coaching staff. Hopefully, we will be able to take better preparations for the tournament,” said Zico.
Assistant coach Stuart Watkiss said, “We solved some problems in possession sessions. Later Jamie did some eleven vs eleven work for getting ready for the first game of the tournament. It’s very pleasant to see that the players are improving, hopefully, they will carry it.”
Bangladesh will play take on Kyrgyzstan U-23s and hosts Nepal on March 23 and 27 respectively. The top two teams will play the final slated at the Dashrath Stadium, Kathmandu on March 29, and the matches will start at 05:45pm (BST).
