Lodwijk De Kruif: We had 10-to-11 new players in our side I think we played a very good match over 87 minutes, with a lot of maturity and power. We were willing, playing with one-two-three touches and had very good positional play. Our young players, five of them are under the age of 20 and they showed what they can do. “The number 10 (Hemonta Biswas) was the best player on the pitch and is 17 years old. The performance was good. I told you before, the preparation time was very short, so you never know how it will turn out. I think the coach can be proud of them, they can be proud of themselves. They were fighting for the honour of Bangladesh. It’s a small football country and they need a little bit of glory. We trained for 3 days. We selected 28 boys. We had trouble with injures and getting visas so we had to drop six guys first and came here with 21, and from the 21, 10-to-11 are new fresh faces in the team and Under-20 and Under-21 players. I was a little bit surprised. I saw the number nine (Robin Singh). I don’t know the guy, their central striker. He looked like a tree. I was surprised the coach (Wim Koevermans) changed him because in my opinion it is important the number 9 is a big strong guy to keep the ball for others. When he changed him, I was happy. The physical behaviour of India was better. Not in the freshness of playing, but in the bodies they were stronger and heavier. When you look at my boys, we have 10-to-11 guys and they are not fully grown up as yet. You could see that clearly. ==> Ahmeduzzaman Onaassis
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 12:27:09 +0000
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