History-maker SAFF Champions now role models for hundreds of girls

The SAFF Women’s Championship winning team
members turned out to be the role models of hundreds of girls, who show their
desire to emulate them in future and bring more laurels to the country.

As the likes of Sanjida, Krishna and their teammates made a glory ride around
the town on an open-top bus after their landmark achievement that made the
whole nation exalted, the young girls, coming to receive them at the airport
vowed to take their discipline of the game more seriously, breaking the
social barrier which still exists at the different part of the country.

“Our elder sisters have become champions. We have come to welcome them on
behalf of BKSP. Players from football, Archery, Judo, and Athletics are here.
Their victory will definitely give us inspiration. May we also achieve such
success, and may we also be greeted like this. We will also try to get the
love like them,” said Sumaiya Sultana Bithi, a student of BKSP.

Sadia Nusrat is undergoing football training at BKSP. Her joy was twice as
much as others.

“I am a footballer and the joy is even greater. Seeing them, the feeling of
getting something bigger is growing…..the willpower is increasing… Since
they have given something good to this generation, I hope we also walk on the
path shown by them. We also can represent Bangladesh and we can do much
better.”

“I think, they are now our role models. They are now our idol to us.
Following their example, we will do something good in the future,” Sadia
continued to say.

Sonia is preparing herself in BKSP to be a world-beater Judo player, but the
footballer’s achievement inspired her to great extent.

“I have come here to congratulate them. They were also BKSP students like us.
We also belong to BKSP. We have to come here to welcome and meet them. Their
achievement made the whole nation proud but more importantly inspired us to
reach the top position,” she said.

Around the same time, national cricket team pacer Taskin Ahmed returned home
after performing Umrah. Congratulating the girls, Taskin said, “This is a
very big achievement. A very happy big achievement which made the whole
nation proud. They will play better in the future.”

Bangladesh women’s football team for the first time won the SAFF championship
by defeating hosts Nepal 3-1 at Dashrath Stadium and thereby created history.

BSS