Two brilliant hat-tricks by Arpita and Soumiya guided Magura District to crush Satkhira by 8-0 goals in a final round match of the JFA U-14 National Women's Football Championship at the Muktijoddha Smriti Stadium in Rajshahi on Monday.

Arpita scored the day's first hat-trick scoring four goals in total in the 16th, 31st, 36th and 38th minutes while Soumiya completed another hat-trick scoring three goals in the 1st, 20th and 58th minutes. Nabiron netted the other goal in the 24th minute.

Earlier in the day's first match, hosts Rajshahi played out a 1-1 draw with Narayanganj at the same venue.

Shankaranth Bala put the home team ahead in the 37th minute while Enni equalised the score in the 42nd minute.

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Argentine police searched the home and office of one of Diego Maradona’s doctors on Sunday, taking away medical records as part of investigations into the death of the 60-year-old soccer star that caused a wave of grief across the country.

Neurologist Leopoldo Luque told reporters after the searches that he had given investigators all of the records of his treatment of Maradona, as well as computers, hard drives and cellphones.

Weeping at times, he insisted he defended his treatment of the troubled soccer star, who died Wednesday of a heart attack following a Nov. 3 brain operation.

“I know what I did. I know how I did it.... I am absolutely sure that what I did the best for Diego, the best I could.”

Luque said he was not Maradona’s chief physician, but part of a medical team.

Court investigators have been taking declarations from Maradona’s relatives, according to a statement from the San Isidro prosecutor’s office, which is overseeing a probe into the medical attention Maradona received prior to his death, which caused an enormous outpouring of emotion across Argentina and among soccer fans worldwide.

Tens of thousands of weeping fans lined up to file past Maradona’s coffin, with lay in state at the presidential palace, before his burial on Thursday.

Maradona had suffered a series of medical problems, some due to excesses of drugs and alcohol. He was reportedly near death in 2000 and 2004.

Luque said he was a difficult patient and had kicked the doctor out of his house several times.

“Diego did what he wanted,” Luque said. “Diego needed help. There was no way of getting through to him.”

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Gaibandha District earned a comfortable 5-0 goal victory over Khagrachari District in a final round match of the JFA U-14 Women's Football Championship at the Muktijoddha Smriti Stadium in Rajshahi on Sunday.

Sagorika made a hattrick scoring four goals in the 16th, 18th, 49th and 60th minutes while Asma netted the other goal in the 68th minute for the winners

Earlier in the day's first match, Rangpur District beat Kishoreganj district by 2-1 goal at the same venue.

Rita Akhter netted both the goals for Rangpur in the 53rd and 56th minutes while Soma scored the lone goal for KIshoreganj in the 49th minute.

Bangladesh National Football team, now in Doha, lost both of their preparatory matches agianst local teams ahead of their FIFA World Cup 2022 and Asian Cup 2023 Qualifiers against Qatar on December 4.

Touring Bangladesh team, which suffered a 2-3 goal defeat against Qatar Army team in the first practice match at the Aziziyah Boutique (Super Club, Pitch-2) in Doha on November 25,  conceded O-1 goal defeat against Qatar Division-2 team Lusail Sporting Club last (Saturday) night at Pitch-1 of the same venue.

Abdulrahman Mosed scored the match-winner for Lusail SC in the 24th minute of the match.

Earlier, Bangladesh started their campaign in FIFA and AFC joint qualifiers last year with a 0-1 defeat against Afghanistan in the first match in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on September 10. It conceded a 0-2 goal defeat against Asian champions Qatar in the second match in Dhaka on October 10 and played to a 1-1 draw against India in their third match in Kolkata on October 15 while conceded 1-4 goal defeat against Oman in the fourth match at the Seeb Sports Stadium in Al Seeb city of Oman on November 14.  

In the five-team Group E, Qatar is now leading the point table with 13 points from five matches while Bangladesh are at the bottom place with one point from four matches. Among others, Oman secured 12, Afghanistan 4 and India 3 points.

Meanwhile,  Bangladesh team moved three steps ahead in the latest ranking of FIFA to place 184th  from 187th after clinching the two-match Mujib Borsho FIFA International Series against upper ranked Nepal recently. It beat the Himalayan nation 2-0 in the 1st match and played to a goalless draw in the 2nd match at the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka.

With the series, Bangladesh not only smartly returned to the international football after about ten months, but also earned morale boost-up ahead of their tough match against Asian giant Qatar billed for December 4.

The Bangladesh Championship League, the second-tier contest after the Bangladesh Premier League, will kick off in the first week of February 2021.

The decision came up at the first meeting of the Bangladesh Football Federation's professional football league committee on Saturday.

The meeting was held online with the committee head Abdus Salam Murshedy MP at the chair.

The first registration window for player transfer will be open from December 7 to January 7.

When the league ends, the Bangladesh Football Federation will arrange a U18 tournament with the participation of the championship league teams.

The top team of the league will be entitled to play in the premier league from next season, while the bottom two will be relegated to the lower division league.

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