Bangladesh Under-20 Football team, now in the Indian city of Bhubaneshwar to participate in the SAFF Under-20 Championship, made their first practices on Saturday. The Bangladesh team  reached Bhubaneshwar Friday night and is staying at Hotel Swosti Premier there. Touring Bangladesh team made strength and conditioning, gym and pool session at the team hotel Saturday morning and made their practices at the Capital Practice ground in the afternoon. During the day's practice session under the head coach Paul Smalley, Bangladesh worked on ball possession, attacking football and set pieces. Read: SAFF U-18: Bangladesh thrash Nepal 4-2 Bangladesh team will also make their strength, conditioning, gym and pool session Sunday morning and will make their field practices at the same venue in the afternoon.  Five South Asian countries-India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Maldives and Sri Lanka -will take part in the meet beginning on Monday (July 25) with Bangladesh taking on Sri Lanka in the opening day .