Wasting a golden generation?
Unless reconciliation happens -- unless Butler and the BFF work to reintegrate the veterans and unify the squad -- Bangladesh could head into the Asian qualifiers at risk of squandering hard-won momentum.
15 May 2025, 03:30 AM
‘Life in sports is yet to return’
Jubaidur Rahman Rana, convenor of five-member Search Committee, talked to The Daily Star's Anisur Rahman.
12 May 2025, 02:00 AM
Locals key to Fed Cup success, says Kings captain Tapu
After leading Bashundhara Kings to Federation Cup title defence as captain, central defender -- even becoming the joint-top scorer -- Tapu Barman was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player.
1 May 2025, 04:10 AM
Ridoy 'regrets' his costly miss in India draw
Ridoy had the simplest of chances to put Bangladesh ahead against India in the 12th minute.
28 March 2025, 01:45 AM
Hamza leads on and off the pitch, says Morsalin
Playing alongside English Premier League footballer Hamza Choudhury was the best-ever experience of his playing career, according to Bangladesh forward Sheikh Morsalin.
27 March 2025, 02:00 AM
Hamza adds spice to India-Bangladesh tie
The match kicks off at 7:30 pm (Bangladesh time) at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Shillong, Meghalaya, and will be broadcast live on T Sports.
25 March 2025, 04:34 AM
The making of Bangladesh in the global sixties
“Mr Speaker Sir, what did Bangalee intend to achieve? What rights did Bangalee want to possess? We do not need to discuss and decide on them now [after independence]. [We] tried to press our demands after the so called 1947 independence. Each of our days and years with Pakistan was an episode of bloodied history; a record of struggle for our rights,” said Tajuddin Ahmad on October 30, 1972 in the Constituent Assembly. He commented on the proposed draft constitution for Bangladesh, which was adopted on November 4, 1972.
19 March 2025, 18:00 PM
A winning start yet in search of winning tactics
Bangladesh football team apparently had a hidden pressure to get off to a winning start in the SAFF Championship and the charges of interim coach Oscar Bruzon did it after switching to a brand of possession-based football from a defensive one.
2 October 2021, 18:00 PM
A breath of fresh air
The little Velana International Airport may not be that attractive upon arrival, especially after catching a sneak peek of the splendid beauty of Maldives from the sky.
1 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Topu stars as Bangladesh get off to winning start
Bangladesh’s bid to play the final of the SAFF Championship got off to a positive note as they handed a single-goal defeat to Sri Lanka in the opening match of the regional football extravaganza at the National Football Stadium in Male yesterday.
1 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh positive of quick start
A revitalised Bangladesh are set to begin their SAFF Championship campaign with hopes of a winning start in their opening match against a new-look new-look Sri Lanka at the National Football Stadium in Male today.
30 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Support aplenty for men in red and green
“I have already bought a ticket to watch Bangladesh’s opening match against Sri Lanka after standing in a long queue on Wednesday. Many Bangladeshis living here are also waiting to buy tickets,” expatriate Mansur Ali contentedly answered ahead of the start of the SAFF Championship in Male today.
30 September 2021, 18:00 PM
‘No choice but to leave it to fate’
Ahead of the 13th SAFF Championship in the Maldives from October 1, Bangladesh will hope their desire to play the elusive final does not again turn to despair.
30 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Suman’s confidence on the rise
Interim coach Oscar Bruzon has already announced his intention to implement an attacking style of football in the upcoming SAFF Championship,
25 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Is expats’ inclusion the right process?
Surprising call-ups of France-based midfielder Tahmid Islam and Canada-based forward Rahbar Wahed Khan in Kyrgyzstan-bound Bangladesh football squad has apparently been leading the discussion of whether the dearth of quality local players has prompted the Bangladesh Football Federation to lean on expatriate footballers.
28 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Will Bangladesh ever realise its Olympics dream?
San Marino, a country with a population of only 34 thousand, Burkina Faso (20.90 million) and Turkmenistan (61.13 million), all three have erased their names from the awkward list of the countries that never won a single Olympic medal. Whereas Bangladesh, a country with 163 million population, are still carrying the tag of the most populous yet unsuccessful nation in the Olympics history, following yet another barren campaign in Tokyo, their tenth overall.
11 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Diya goes down fighting in shoot-off
“I tried my best but it was not enough,” were the first words from teenage archer Diya Siddique after her loss to Karyna Dziominskaya of Belarus in a tiebreaker in the women’s individual recurve event at the Tokyo Olympics yesterday.
29 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Ruman bows out in second round after last-shot thriller
After being eliminated from the second round of the men’s individual recurve event at the Tokyo Olympics, Bangladesh’s top archer Ruman Sana felt the urge to smash his bow shortly before returning to his senses and setting his sights on a gold medal at the 2028 Olympics.
27 July 2021, 18:00 PM
The girl from Nilphamari aims for Olympic medal
Teenage archer Diya Siddique is considered to be the third potential athlete -- after Ruman Sana and shooter Abdullah Hel Baki -- to bring success for Bangladesh in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics as the 17-year-old archer has recently hogged the limelight by bagging a silver medal by pairing with Ruman in the Recurve mixed event of Archery World Cup in Switzerland.
19 July 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We should not dare to dream of winning a medal’
Archer Ruman Sana’s direct qualification to 2020 Tokyo Olympics has seemingly fueled the Bangladesh Olympic Association (BOA) to dream something big this time around even though it has always been a token participation in the Olympics for Bangladesh since its first appearance at world’s showpiece event in the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984.
18 July 2021, 18:00 PM
2021 SAFF Championship increasingly unlikely
With fans still reeling from the excitement of Copa America and Euros, any enthusiasm regarding the SAFF Championship -- South Asia’s biggest football carnival -- is likely to be vanish before a ball is kicked due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
13 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Six Olympians shoulder nation’s hopes
Thirty-seven years since a maiden appearance at the Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984, participation at the Games remains a symbolic gesture on the part of Bangladeshi athletes.
5 July 2021, 18:00 PM
A life lost for a vacant ICU
Getting no space at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Salimullah Medical College Hospital (SMCH), relatives of Salma Akter (26) brought her to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) yesterday noon.
26 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Football fever grips Bangladesh players
Since returning from Doha following the Joint Qualifiers for World Cup and Asian Cup, footballers of the national team have wasted no time in engaging themselves to domestic circuit’s club commitments at a time when all of footballing fraternity surf the waves of excitement of the ongoing editions of European Championship and Copa America.
25 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘I like Bangladeshi culture’
“I like Shuvo Noboborsho [Bengali New Year]. I think it is unique and special the way it is celebrated all over country,” Nigeria-born footballer Eleta Kingsley said as he was reacting to receiving his Bangladesh passport on Wednesday.
17 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Of the peasants’ quest for a state and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Afsan Chowdhury’s Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangladesh: The Quest for a State (1937-71), published in 2020 by Shrabon Prokashani, studies Bangabandhu in the context of the peasants’ resistance against colonialism and their quest for a state in South Asia.
16 June 2021, 18:00 PM
‘Hope to represent Bangladesh as far as my career goes’
Finland-born Tariq Raihan Kazi is the second expatriate footballer after Jamal Bhuiyan to represent Bangladesh at international football. Tariq, who
13 June 2021, 18:00 PM