Youth hockey team leaves for Oman today

The Bangladesh youth hockey team leave for Oman tonight to take part in the Men’s Junior AHF Cup hockey competition scheduled to be held from January 6-12 in Muscat.

Bangladesh are pitted in group B along with Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Uzbekistan while Pool A consists of Thailand, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia and host Oman.

Bangladesh will start their tournament campaign when they face Hong Kong in one of the four opening-day matches on January 6, meet Sri Lanka on January 7 and play the third and final group match against Uzbekistan on January 9.

The semifinals of the competition will be held on January 11 while the final is slated for January 12.

Bangladesh won the trophy of the Men’s Junior AHF Cup hockey on one occasion back in 2014.

Ahead of the team’s departure, a press conference was held today (Tuesday) at Bangladesh Air Force Falcon Hall.

Bangladesh Hockey Federation’s (BHF) president and Chief of Air Staff Shaikh Abdul Hannan was the chief guest at the press conference.

Al-Arafah Islami Bank Limited’s managing director Forman R Chowdhury was also present there.

BHF’s acting general secretary Mohammad Yousuf gave his welcome speech at the press conference.

Later the Oman-bound youth hockey team took part in a group photo session with the BHF’s president and other officials of the BHF.