Bangladesh football team will leave for Maldives Tuesday to play the first Fifa International Friendly against the home team, scheduled to be held Thursday in Male.
An US-Bangla flight carrying the Bangladesh football team are expected to leave Dhaka for Maldives at 11:20am.
Addressing a pre-departure press conference Monday at a city hotel, Bangladesh captain Jamal Bhuiyan expects a good outcome from the two friendly matches.
Jamal said in Maldives they would get big support and inspiration from expatriate Bangladeshi football fans living there and overall the players are fit and ready to do something good against the hosts.
Jamal firmly said they want to win both friendly matches against Maldives and Mongolia.
Commenting on the team's new head coach Javier Cabrera, Jamal said the new coach worked very hard, witnessed many matches and studied all the players.
He is an exception compared to the other previous coaches of the team, said Jamal and the skipper hoped the new coach would able to show it in Maldives.
National team committee's chairman and Bangladesh Football Federation's vice president Kazi Nabil Ahmed said: "We are hoping for a good outcome. Match is always something unexpected anything can happen lose, win or draw, buy our effort will be on the pitch and make the best result that we can. We have 90 minutes to play as we ask all the players to give their full effort until 90 minutes. We don't want any untoward outcome in the end and want to get desired outcome through hard work.
"Lot of players are playing some time now in different competitions, you all know the team already participated three or four engagements last year. We did not utilize the January window due to Covid-19 situation though the BFF president (Kazi Salahuddin) was always very diligent so that the team can play the matches. We have contracted various federations to utilize the March window and on that basis the team are going to play Mongolia and Maldives."
Team's manager Iqbal Hossain said the team made practice in the last two days and the players are well and fit.
He said the team would have another practice session in Maldives before the match and he hoped to bring something good for the country.
Bangladesh will play the second friendly match against Mongolia on March 29 in Sylhet.
