Ladies’s soccer match cancelled in Bangladesh after non secular protests | Soccer Information


College students from native non secular faculty vandalise venue set to host ladies’s match, a day after comparable incident in one other metropolis.

A ladies’s soccer match in Bangladesh has been cancelled after protests by college students from a conventional non secular faculty broken the venue, the second such incident in as many days.

The northwestern metropolis of Joypurhat was because of host a pleasant soccer match on Wednesday between its district ladies’s crew and one other from close by Rangpur, however the venue and its services had been vandalised, native organisers mentioned.

“The Islamists in our space gathered in a area and marched towards the venue. There have been a whole lot of them,” event organiser Samiul Hasan Emon advised the AFP information company.

“The state of affairs worsened, and we needed to cancel at present’s occasion.”

A screengrab reveals the venue after it was attacked earlier than the match was because of be held on January 29, 2025 [Screengrab/Channel 24]

Abu Bakkar Siddique, the headmaster of an area non secular faculty, mentioned he had joined the demonstration along with his college students and lecturers and pupils from a number of different non secular faculties.

“Women soccer is un-Islamic,” he mentioned. “It’s our non secular responsibility to cease something that goes towards our beliefs.”

The incident occurred after one other match was postponed within the close by metropolis Dinajpur on Tuesday following an identical demonstration by protesters wielding sticks.

“The match was suspended half an hour earlier than it was purported to kick off. We needed to rapidly transfer the ladies to a safer place,” instructor Moniruzzaman Zia advised AFP.

Native authorities officer Amit Roy mentioned 4 individuals had been injured when protesters and counterdemonstrators lobbed bricks at one another however all had since been discharged from hospital.

Wednesday’s incident was swiftly condemned by the Bangladesh Soccer Federation (BFF).

“Soccer is for everybody, and ladies have full rights to take part in it,” BFF media supervisor Sadman Sakib mentioned in an announcement.

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