Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin yesterday submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Finance, asking for Tk39m to be allocated every year for the development of the country’s football.
The BFF chief sat in a meeting with Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith yesterday afternoon where he submitted the budget. According to the BFF president’s assistant, Ahmed Sayed Al-Fatah, the Finance Minister took the proposal positively.
“The BFF president met the Finance Minister today (yesterday) at 1:30pm. The president submitted the proposal officially to the minister and the minister took it positively,” said Fatah yesterday.
The amount of money is believed to be in the region of Tk39m per year. It will be used for the development of football in the grass-root level, organising men’s and women’s professional and age-level tournaments, school football, BFF Academy, talent hunt programmes et al.
The meeting also settled on a date of the logo-unveiling ceremony of the long-awaited Bangabandhu Gold Cup International Football Tournament 2015.
The logo and other details of the tournament will be revealed this Thursday where Muhith will be present as the chief guest.
