Brazil said that they will train coaches along with school students of Bangladesh to help the country improve its football.
State Minister for Sports Biren Sikder revealed the development after a meeting with Brazillian Ambassador in Dhaka Joao Tabajara de Oliveira Junior at the Secretariat on Thursday.
Biren said Brazil has been training school-level footballers under a social programme in China.
“Similarly, they want to work with the government to take Bangladesh’s football forward. We’ve invited them to visit BKSP (national sport institution),” he said.
“They have agreed in principle to help us with training for coaches. We’ll sit again to discuss the issue,” he added.
The state minister also said the government was eager to start the programme at BKSP.
On Wednesday, Oliveira Junior said Brazilian government was planning to help Bangladesh to make its football better as they were impressed by the “incredible” fanbase of the five-time world champions during the ongoing 2018 World Cup in Russia.
“I never saw anything like what we saw here,” Clayton Conservani, a journalist who was brought along with two others by the embassy from Rio de Janeiro to see the “impressive” supporters in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh is currently ranked 194th in the world, said a bdnews24 report.