{"id":24022,"date":"2021-02-20T11:59:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=24022"},"modified":"2021-02-20T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:59:20","slug":"the-light-of-hope-franchise-hockey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2021\/02\/20\/the-light-of-hope-franchise-hockey\/","title":{"rendered":"The light of hope franchise hockey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sports Desk:<\/strong> Hockey was once considered the most promising sport after football. But the Premier Division Hockey League has been stuck for the past three years. As a result, that tension is no more. However, the proposed franchise hockey league is showing hope again. It could again become a source of income for the players.<\/p>\n<p>The Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) has been unable to do so due to financial constraints, despite repeated requests from the country&#8217;s hockey players to host the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>National team midfielder Mohammad Naeem Uddin said, \u201cThe workers of every club want the league to start. But the surprising thing is that if they sit in a meeting, they cannot reach a decision. And so we have to not eat year after year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of the franchise league is a great opportunity for players who always want to get regular benefits. We want hockey to be back on the pitch and every player to make a living by playing this game. Most of the players are unemployed, except for a few who work in different forces, \u201dhe added.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of franchise leagues will certainly give players the opportunity to make money and encourage emerging players to continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Desk: Hockey was once considered the most promising sport after football. But the Premier Division Hockey League has been stuck for the past three years. As a result, that tension is no more. However, the proposed franchise hockey league is showing hope again. It could again become a source of income for the players. The Bangladesh Hockey Federation (BHF) has been unable to do so due to financial constraints, despite repeated requests from the country&rsquo;s hockey players to host the Premier League. National team midfielder Mohammad Naeem Uddin said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":24023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24024,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24022\/revisions\/24024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}