{"id":13395,"date":"2026-04-04T02:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=13395"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:20:03","slug":"prime-minister-congratulated-bangladesh-u-20-football-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/?p=13395","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister congratulated Bangladesh U-20 football team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Staff Correspondent<\/strong>: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman congratulated the Bangladesh U-20 football team for their victory over India in the SAFF U-20 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister\u2019s Press Secretary Saleh Shibly said the premier extended his heartfelt congratulations to all players, coaches and officials of the Bangladesh U-20 football team over the historic victory in the SAFF U-20 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDriven by patriotism and team spirit, our brave young players have proved that united efforts can ensure Bangladesh\u2019s continued victories both at home and abroad, Inshallah,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the government has already started implementing plans to establish sports as a profession, Tarique Rahman said such achievements by the youth will inspire sports-loving people across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh clinched the title of SAFF U-20 Championship beating India by 4-3 goals in penalty shoot-out in the nail-biting final held at National Football Stadium in Male, Maldives on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Correspondent: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman congratulated the Bangladesh U-20 football team for their victory over India in the SAFF U-20 Championship. Prime Minister\u2019s Press Secretary Saleh Shibly said the premier extended his heartfelt congratulations to all players, coaches and officials of the Bangladesh U-20 football team over the historic victory in the SAFF U-20 Championship. \u201cDriven by patriotism and team spirit, our brave young players have proved that united efforts can ensure Bangladesh\u2019s continued victories both at home and abroad, Inshallah,\u201d the Prime Minister said. Noting that the government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-lead-news","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13397,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13395\/revisions\/13397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyenglishtimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}