U-16 football star's father assaulted by teacher in Mymensingh

Miscreants have allegedly beaten up the father of Taslima, a member of Asian Football Confederation Under-16 Women Qualifiers champion team. The assault took place at Mohilla Market in Kolshindur area under Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh on Wednesday night. Sobuj Mia, 40, claimed Kolshindur High School physical education teacher Jubed Talukdar and his men beat him up with sticks. He said: “The Under-16 girls will be honoured at a programme on September 17 in Dhaka but Jubed asked them not to attend the programme. He asked Taslima and some other girls to attend a school match instead. “He (Jubed) verbally abused us [parents] and the girls when they refused to skip the programme for the school match during a meeting with him last evening [Wednesday].” Following the development, Jubed and his men physically assaulted Sobuj. The victim filed a case in the afternoon against Jubed on charge of assaulting him, says Dhobaura police station OC Shawkat Alam, adding that the sole accused went into hiding soon after the incident.Read More: Netizens explode over ill-treatment of U16 soccer girlsThis incident takes place a day after a TV report showed nine girls of the squad travelling in a rather below-standard Mymensingh-bound regular bus service with no team management personnel accompanying them. On the other hand, Bangladesh Football Federation in a statement on Wednesday claimed that they had indeed offered the players, all from Mymensingh, a more comfortable journey but they preferred returning like they usually do. Bangladesh U-16 Women's team emerged unbeaten champions of Group C of the AFC U-16 Women's Championship Qualifiers with 4-0 goals victory over UAE on Monday.