Dutch national football coach Lodewijk de Kruif yesterday termed the situation “tough” ahead of the Fifa International friendly against India on March 5.
The Dutch coach sat with the president of Bangladesh Football Federation at the BFF House yesterday and a number of issues were discussed by the parties. “BFF has promised to clear my and Rene Koster’s due salaries at the end of the next month, we have also asked the president about the implementation of our development plans, but at the moment we are focused to the match against India,” said de Kruif.
“We wanted to settle the salary issue. There were political problems and the last date of solving the problem was February 1 and now there is another extension, there are no hard feelings but I think we should talk about it,” added de Kruif.
However, Lodewijk de Kruif was also worried over the preparations and said, “Both Sheikh Jamal and Sheikh Russell will not release their players till February 28 and we will have only two full days of practice at home and away. It’s a tough situation, however, we have to deal with the circumstances.”
BFF vice-president Tabith Awal was also present at the meeting and he said, “We have talked about the due salaries and we hope that it would be cleared by next month as we are trying for new sponsors and some of the responses are positive.”
