The unknown story of the country's female football star Sagarika's life
The allotted 90 minutes are over. The added time game is on. The referee is waiting for the whistle to blow at any moment. Bangladesh scored at the exact moment when the fate of the match was assumed to be a goalless draw. But, a girl named Sagarika changed the equation with a goal at the last moment. That is appreciated across the country today. This is the story of how they beat India 1-0 in their second match in the recent U-19 Women's SAFF Championship. With this win, Bangladesh girls are in the final with 1 match in hand. And that only goal was scored by Mosammat Sagarika, a girl from Aj-Paragaon in Thakurgaon. Who is now known as female footballer Sagarika. Before this, Sagarika scored a double against Nepal. Trailing in that game against India, Bangladesh equalized in the last minute with Mosammat Sagarika's goal. Later in the tiebreaker, all 11 and 22 players of the two teams put the ball in the net. In the end Bangladesh and India were declared joint champions. Sagarika's home is in Rangatungi village of Hossingaon union of Ranishankoil upazila of Thakurgaon district. His father Liton Ali and mother Mocha ran a small tea shop on the side of the paved road in the area called Rangatungi scale on the Ranishankoil-Haripur paved road. Anju Begum Sagarika is the younger of the two boys and girls. And son md. Sagar works as a laborer in a brick kiln. Father Lytton also used to work as a fireman in a brickyard. Two years ago he started a small tea biscuit shop rent-free from someone on the side of the road. Liton and his wife Anju run the shop together and manage their family. Their house is next door. A dilapidated house surrounded by a thatched fence and built of straw and tin with two rooms. Sagarika started playing at Ranishankoil Rangatungi United Promila Football Academy at the age of 9. After playing there for 6 consecutive years, he was admitted to BKSP with the efforts of Tajul Islam, the director of that academy. Sagarika did not like BKSP's Kothar rules. So after 4 months he returned to his home field Ranishankoil. After that Ranishankoil Rangatungi started playing league in different clubs of the country for Promila Football Academy. While playing in those leagues, he established himself as a top scorer and a skilled player. And then Sagarika caught the attention of the national team. Now he is playing for the national team for 1 year. On Monday (February 12), it was revealed that the beginning of playing football was not easy for Sagarika. Playing football in halfpants jerseys. Religion does not support. His family had to hear that the mayor will not get married. This is what Sagarika's father Liton Ali was saying in the interview. Sagarika's parents said while talking to I News reporter, that's why they stopped their daughter from playing. After hearing that she used to go to the field secretly, I stopped talking to her for a month. At the end, the director of the academy, retired principal Tajul Islam, after many requests, returned Sagarika to the field with permission. But that girl is one of the best assets of football in the country today. Liton Ali said with pride to think about it now.
