'Discipline the major considering factor' in women's football impasse report

Bangladesh Football Federation's (BFF) senior vice-president Imrul Hasan said that discipline was the biggest factor in deciding the recommendations made in the report over the feud between the women's football team and its head coach Peter Butler.
Speaking to reporters following the final meeting of the seven-member special committee to investigate the issue at the BFF House on Thursday night, Hasan said that the report has been presented to BFF president Tabith Awal, who will either relay the recommendations to the media or make further changes to those if he feels the need.
"The seven-member committee started work on Saturday regarding the impasse of women's football. We have heard the statements of the relevant parties, and based on those we have arrived at several decisions," Hasan, the head of the committee, told reporters after the meeting.
"We have formed our report on the underlying causes of the impasse and forwarded our report to the BFF president. The president himself will brief reporters on the decisions.
"There is no denying that the women's football team has given us many successes. We are grateful to the women's football team," Hasan said. "But the most important thing is discipline. And things like success or failure won't be any major factor in deciding those (recommendations)."
Eighteen senior players out of a squad of 31 have been boycotting the national team's training camp over their demand for removal of head coach Peter Butler. They have categorically said that they won't train as long as the Englishman is in charge. Butler, meanwhile, has retorted by saying that he would stay in charge only if the protesting players are banished from the national team.
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