News of victory in an international stage is something very new to us. The performance of the Bangladesh U-16 girls' football team must come as pleasant tiding and a commendable achievement. They have had to face many hurdles in coming to the stage they have, but they have been performing very well in the age group competitions as we see from the performance of the U-14 team which won the AFC regional championship trophy in December 2015. The heavy drubbing in the hands of Maldives by a huge margin in a recent friendly encounter between the two is an example of the nadir that our men's team has fallen. We would hope that our girls will continue to perform in the same vein and that will be the great inspiration of our men’s football team as well as our whole nation. We would hope too that the football federation will continue to provide everything necessary to ensure that not only is the performance level maintained, but that it also goes up steadily.