Squad finalizes for Gold Cup

Jan 07, 2016 - 08:46:05 |
Young and promising striker Hassan Naiz

Male’, MALDIVES – Maldives national team coach, Ricki Herbert has finalized his squad for the upcoming Bangabandhu Gold Cup with young players.

Senior players like, Ali Ashfaq, Imran Mohamed, Asadhulla Abdulla, Samdhooh Mohamed, Mohamed Arif has decided not to travel with the team due to various reasons. Football Association of Maldives has said yesterday that they have decided to take a young team few days back in preparation for the upcoming SAFF Games.

Bangabandhu Gold Cup is organized by the Bangladesh Football Federation. The tournament is scheduled to be kick off tomorrow. Maldives lies in group B along with host Bangaldesh U23 team, Bahrain and Cambodia.

Maldives team will be departing to Bangladesh on Saturday and their first game is against Cambodia on Monday.

The following are the final squad for the Bangabandhu Gold Cup:

Mohamed Imran

Mohamed Faisal

Muruthala Adnan

Ali Samooh

Ahmad Abdulla

Ismail Easa

Ali Ashadh

Ali Fasir

Hamza Mohamed

Ansar Ibrahim

Ahmed Nashid

Hassan Naiz

Ahmed Imaaz

Adam Isham

Ahmed Suhail

Abdulla Fayaz

Gasim Samaam

Hussain Sifau Yoosuf

Ibrahim Haseeb

Ibrahim Waheed Hassan

Mohamed Saaid

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Fan on Jan 08
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Hope the fallout from the latest debacle will not impact on the camaraderie of the players. On the contrary, I like to believe their resolve will be further strengthened by withdrawal of many too players and they will show everybody it is not the end of the world for national team.
pio on Jan 08
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If 1997 is to be viewed as an example that this team will hopefully generate a more happy ending :) to Maldivian football fans
dombe on Jan 08
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We need two coaches, one for senior another for under 21. I prefer this model cause we'll be in better position to assess the performance of under 21 coach and if he managed to live up to our expectation than he could be promoted to senior team. coach will be motivated and players will have that desire to impress the coach to be selected in the senior team. he will be familiar the player. i see lot of benefits in this model. In case this does not work out, we'll have the senior coach.
player on Jan 09
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Its a more costly model. Maldives plays a handful of international matches each year, sometimes none, so having two coaches may not generate the kind of input to each other.
Amjad on Jan 10
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I like this idea. Urbanyi was a good coach to develop young players, if we could afford two coaches then its a wise thing to do. But as "player" said, the young teams have almost nothing through out the year, so as far as the current system is concerned its is useless!!!

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