Like the heroes of epic, who toils, struggles, fights against all odds time and again, Yasir has already overcome many tragedies like mythical heroes. The 25-year old has been battered with heinous body shaming, a life-threatening accident, constant negligence, and sheer bad luck on debut. “His life is not very smooth, but he never loses hope,” said Yasir’s father Shawkat Ali Chowdhury, who lives very close to the ZACS. From very early age Yasir was a bit overweight and his father admitted him to local Bright Academy so that the game would keep him fit. As a local online sports portal calculated, Yasir had to wait 918 days for the national cap after getting his first call up in the squad.

Source: Dhaka Tribune November 29, 2021 21:19 UTC