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U-16 boys to give full effort against Yemen: Head coach

Bangladesh Under-16 team's head coach Mostafa Anower Parvez said his boys are ready to give their best efforts to achieve good result against Yemen, according to a message received here from Bangladesh Football Federation this (Thursday) afternoon.

Bangladesh will take on Yemen in their second group E match scheduled to be held tomorrow (Friday).

"Today we had our practice in the outer Stadium of Doha for more than one and half hours, everybody is physically and mentally fine, Yesterday (Wednesday) we all watched the match between Qatar and Yemen. Yemen U-16 team is very strong team and we tried to find out their strong and weak points.

Tomorrow our 2nd match is against Yemen, We have got some idea about Yemen team & our boys are ready to give the best effort for having good result , It will be a competitive match," said the Bangladesh head coach prior to their match against Yemen.

The Bangladesh team's skipper Yaseen Arafat said: "Our team are ready to fight with Yemen team. We watched the match between Yemen and Qatar. Now we have got some idea about Yemen team.

Tomorrow (Friday) we'll follow our coach's instruction ....... we will give full effort in the match try to achieve a good result for my country. Please pray for us."

Earlier Bangladesh's opening Group E match of the AFC U-16 Championship Qualifiers scheduled to be played on Wednesday evening was cancelled as they opposition the United Arab Emirates, withdrew from the competition due to political crisis with Qatar.

Source: BSS