Bangladesh National Under-12 Football Team made a winning start in the Asian Youth Football Fiesta with a 1-0 win over Ansan Junior FC of the hosts South Korea in their first match on Saturday.
Meraj scored the match winning goal for Bangladesh in the eighth minute of the match at the Anseong Sports Complex, Anseong City, Gyeonggi-do in South Korea.
However, Bangladesh played a goalless draw match against INFC Ansan Junior Team in the second match of the day.
In the day's other matches, Afghanistan National Under-12 Football Team suffered goalless draw with Training Centre of Timor Leste while Training Center of Timor Leste outplayed Ansan Junior by 4-0 goals. Afghanistan beat INFC Ansan Junior by 1-0 goal.
First Secretary of Bangladesh Embassy in South Korea Zahidul Islam Bhuiyan and Consul of Bangladesh Embassy Khandoker Masudul Alam witnessed the day's first match.
Bangladesh will play two matches today. They will face Afghanistan Under-12 team at 9:45am and face Training Centre of Timor Leste Under-12 team at 12:00 pm at the same venue.