It has been heard over the years that Hamza Chowdhury, a Bangladesh born English footballer would play for the Bangladesh national team.
Finally, Hamza showed his interest to play for Bangladesh national team when he will have to maintain so many formalities to have his Bangladeshi passport.
Hamza will submit the papers next week for the processing of his passport at the Bangladesh High Commission in London.
Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF), which also wants Hamza in Bangladesh national side, has been trying and providing all their assistance, as he would get the passport, as soon as possible. Imran Hossain Tusher, general secretary of the BFF, who went in Thailand to join in the FIFA Congress, informed the Bangladesh Post on Thursday (from Thailand) that they have contacted with Hamza’s mother.
“Actually we are also eagerly want Hamza in Bangladesh National team and we are trying to provide every help to have his passport, as when he needed his birth certificate from Bangladesh, we helped to manage that.” “Player like Hamza is interested to play for Bangladesh it is great news for us.
So, we are also working very sincerely. We will beside him to complete all the processes as we were.”
Meanwhile, Kazi Nabil Ahmed, vice-president of the BFF and former member of the standing committee of the Foreign Ministry also contacted with Hamza’s mother and Bangladesh High Commission in London to assist Hamza to complete his Bangladeshi passport, Imran informed.
But after managing the Bangladeshi passport will not enough to play for Bangladesh, as Hamza played for England’s age group national team, he would have to manage the release letter from FA. After that BFF will apply to FIFA and after having the green signal from the players’ status committee of FIFA to play for Bangladesh.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshi born Jamal Bhuiyan of Denmark and Tarek Kazi of Finland have been playing for the Bangladesh national team when they had also maintained all the formalities.
