The skipper felt that the team is at a disadvantage given that India and Afghanistan have already started preparing in Qatar....
Jamal Bhuyan expressed his disappointment as Bangladesh football team couldn’t travel to Saudi Arabia in order to play a couple of practice games ahead of their 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup joint qualifiers in Qatar next month.
The Bengal Tigers were due to fly off to Jeddah on May 24th however, since they couldn’t procure an exemption from quarantine from the Saudi government, the plan was shelved.
However, this would certainly hurt Bangladesh’s preparations as they wouldn’t have ideal preparation ahead of the crucial qualifiers.