Season opener highlights football’s ground realities
In a repeat encounter of last season’s Challenge Cup fixture, Federation Cup winners Bashundhara Kings thrashed Bangladesh Premier League champions Mohammedan by 4-1 in the curtain-raiser of the new football season at the Shaheed Dhirendranath Dutta Stadium in Cumilla yesterday..
20 September 2025, 02:30 AM
Interview / ‘Modern football demands athletes’
In a freewheeling interview with The Daily Star's Atique Anam at the team hotel in Dhaka, the former West Ham United midfielder opened up about his football methodology, plans for the future, the shortcomings of the federation, men's football, and the controversies he has found himself in.
27 July 2025, 04:00 AM
'Time the officials paid back for the sacrifice of players and coaching staff'
In a conversation with The Daily Star, Alfaz Ahmed spoke about the secret of Mohammedan's success in the league and what he expects from the club in the wake of this title triumph.
18 May 2025, 09:00 AM
‘Hamza has helped us raise the level and quality of our game’
In this interview with The Daily Star, Bangladesh Football Federation president Tabith Awal spoke about both women's and men's teams and the controversies surrounding football.
7 April 2025, 02:00 AM
Bangladesh football riding the Hamza wave
When Bangladesh football team captain Jamal Bhuiyan told the press on Thursday, “It feels our [Lionel] Messi is here,” about the arrival of Hamza Choudhury, he wasn’t exaggerating.
22 March 2025, 01:00 AM
Rebel women footballers at a dead end?
The 18 senior players of Bangladesh national women’s team, who have been boycotting training since head coach Peter Butler returned to the country, seem to have shot themselves on the foot after refusing to sign contracts offered by the Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) on Monday.
12 February 2025, 02:04 AM
The World Cup should not be a mere extension of the IPL
For those cricket fans who have got used to enjoying the sight of batters steamrolling bowlers of all ilk over the past 65 days or so, will the forthcoming T20 World Cup in the USA and the West Indies may prove to be a bit of a turn-off.
28 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Should Murshedy get away with sweeping dirt under the rug?
In stark contrast to many developed nations where people in power often relinquish their positions in face of charges of corruption or incompetence even before allegations are proved in a show of true accountability -- there is a disturbing tendency to brush aside all sorts of allegations, even after proven, under the rug by the people in power in countries like Bangladesh, which ranks among the lowest in various corruption indexes.
25 May 2024, 02:00 AM
Wahab's burst from the past
In a game which is seeing increasing dominance of bat over the ball, with all the rules favouring the batsman and making it all the
20 March 2015, 18:00 PM
History's boys
For all those cricket lovers, whose first vivid memories of a cricket World Cup are from the one held down under 23 years ago -- the
18 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Chinks in India's armour?
Chinks in the armour. That must be the catchphrase in the Bangladesh camp right now as they build up for a quarterfinal clash
14 March 2015, 18:00 PM
Time to celebrate
Yesterday's win against England must be the considered the biggest achievement for Bangladesh cricket since their ICC Trophy win back in 1997,
9 March 2015, 19:30 PM
A batsman's game
Glenn Maxwell's innings against Afghanistan yesterday could be a classic example to illustrate how more and more cricket is evolving into a batsman's game.
4 March 2015, 18:58 PM
Long live Amla
There are quite a few types of strikers in modern day cricket. There are the McCullums who try to set the pace right from the get go with cuts, pulls,
3 March 2015, 18:37 PM
A recipe for Tigers
Well, well, well. Pakistan are finally off the mark. It has taken the former champions two bashings
1 March 2015, 18:26 PM
A case for the 'minnows'
After 15 matches of the World Cup so far, some of which have been entirely uncompetitive, we got arguably the most exciting and certainly the closest contest yesterday.
25 February 2015, 18:36 PM
Hit them at their weakest
England have finally got their World Cup campaign off the mark. After two heavy defeats, the English managed to thwart the Scottish challenge with a 119-run victory.
23 February 2015, 18:36 PM
Best possible start for Tigers
Bangladesh couldn't have asked for a better start to the World Cup, could they?
21 February 2015, 19:16 PM
What about the promised land?
Ever since Muhammad Ali's historic visit to Bangladesh 37 years ago, there has been this occasional speculation in local media as to what happened to the piece of land in Cox's Bazar which was promised to the legendary boxer.
19 February 2015, 19:05 PM