It is said that there is no sport in Khulna! the reason for the poor condition is that there are no qualified people in the qualified place: Former national footballer Sheikh Aslam
Bangladesh football team's former captain Sheikh Mohammad Aslam, former national team's attacking player, former captain of Dhaka's Abhani club, and famous professional footballer of the country. A child of the famous Haji family of Khulna. Who has retired from sports a long time ago. But he is still involved with Bangladesh football. He spends busy time with his own business and lives in Dhaka with his family. But all his thoughts are still around football. How to develop football in Bangladesh, football in Khulna. Why the quality of football in Bangladesh is low. In a private conversation with Voice7 News, he spoke about himself, Khulna and sports in Bangladesh.
Sheikh Mohmand Aslam said about the fame of Khulna sports world at one time and the current state of Khulna sports world, I came to Khulna stadium holding the hands of my father and uncles when I was a child. Then I saw the crowd of spectators in the stadium. How much people love football! Not only football, Khulna had a tradition and a great reputation in the sports world in various events including athletics, weightlifting. Say athletes, say weightlifting, say 100m sprint, say football, say cricket, at every level our Khulna krit players walked. I salute all of us who are old and young that we were able to make Khulna a place at the national level. Now that place seems to me totally missing. Currently there is no sports in Khulna.
Looking at the face of this youth society, today I will draw the attention of those who are involved in various organizations and say that Khulna's sports arena needs to be reactivated in order to show this youth a good path. So that they can take the society to a beautiful place by playing sports and football freely. During my lifetime, I held the national flag of Bangladesh on my chest and captained Bangladesh at the national level. By playing from this Khulna region, we have reached the national level.
My appeal to the current Khulna players, all of us, those who are playing football or in athletics, should follow our footsteps, meditate and practice so that the flag of Khulna can rise higher and turn the youth into youth power. I express that hope to the youth society of Khulna.
About the plight of Khulna's sports world, he said, "I will say only one reason for this plight of sports in Khulna is to put qualified people in suitable places." If a qualified person does not sit in a qualified chair, they will leave by spoiling the chair and spoiling the society. Which is currently happening in Khulna. This is what I want to change. Those who are involved in sports will think about this at least. I will try to make our youth society a youth force. That should be our motto.
In order to make the Khulna stadium operational, I will draw the attention of those involved with the cricket board, I hope that if they try, our divisional stadium will become more operational and wake up in a new way. If I need any assistance in this regard, I will feel very blessed if I can help from the side. As a child of this region, I hope to take my Khulna forward.
Reminiscing about his family, he said, to be honest, my family was a sports family. Our Gobrachaka Pallimangal school ground in Khulna. If we didn't go there then, our stomach would not digest the rice. Must go there every afternoon. That field has always kept us back from silly chats. That's why I would say that a field is needed to create a sports environment.
At that place, our honorable Prime Minister is building 1 Sheikh Russell mini stadium in each upazila of Bangladesh. That's why I salute him as a footballer of the age. He is a sports lover like his brother and their family is a sports style family. We don't know how to thank this sports family. It is our failure that we cannot give him anything.
About the biggest achievement and success of his life, Sheikh Aslam said, the biggest achievement of my life in football is that I made the Bangladesh national team win the President Cup once in our country. At least once, we were able to bring smiles to the faces of the people of Bangladesh. I think this is the biggest success of my life.
Legendary national team former footballer Sheikh Mohammad Aslam was born on March 1, 1958 in the famous Haji family of Khulna. Spent childhood and adolescence in Khulna.
His journey into professional football began in 1974 by playing for Town Club in the Khulna Second Division Football League. Played in Bangladesh Wapday. He gained wide fame across the country while playing for Abahani Krira Chakra.
In the 80s and 90s, the most lethal marksman player in the Dhaka domestic league was the tall 5 feet 9 inches Sheikh Mohammad Aslam. He has scored more than 300 goals in domestic and intern
ational football. He is the all-time top scorer in Bangladeshi top flight football with 117 goals in the Dhaka League. Scored 38 international goals for club and country. Sheikh Mohammad Aslam also scored 14 official international goals for the Bangladesh national football team while representing the country.
He has achieved the honor of representing Bangladesh in the South Asian Games held in 1984, 1985 and 1991.
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