Fitness and discipline will be the key factors in the residential camp of the Bangladesh national hockey team starting from February 3 at the Maulana Bhashani National Hockey Stadium.
The players who are not part of the clubs playing in Super Four phase of the ongoing premier league will join the camp first. The players playing the last stage of the league will join once the league ends.
All the 40 players of the preliminary camp reported to the head coach Naveed Alam who handed them a specific fitness plan to maintain. “Fitness will be the top priority and I have categorically mentioned that if any player fails the fitness test before the camp, he will not be eligible to join the camp. I and the members of the national selection committee will closely follow the players in the league,” said Naveed before adding that discipline will also be an important factor in the camp.
Bangladesh is pitted in Group ‘B’ along with Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and Afghanistan in the Asian Games hockey qualifiers which will start in Dhaka from March 13.
