Rezaul Karim Reza (; born 1 July 1987) is a retired Bangladeshi professional

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who played as a

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. He represented the Bangladesh national team between 2010 and 2021. Due to his versatility, he could also play as a

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. He last played for

Dhaka Abahani Abahani Limited Dhaka (), also referred as Dhaka Abahani or Abahani Limited, is a Bangladeshi professional football club based in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The club currently competes in the Bangladesh Premier League, the top ...

. In July 2016, he was appointed as the national team's captain. He led Bangladesh during a friendly against

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and also during the

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fixture against

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Honours

Fakirerpool YMC * Dhaka Senior Division League: 2007–08 Bangladesh U-23 *

South Asian Games The South Asian Games is a quadrennial multi-sport event held among athletes from South Asia. The South Asia Olympic Council, which was formed in 1983, governs it. The Games consist of seven countries, namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, N ...

Gold medal:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club *

Bangladesh Premier League Bangladesh Premier League (), also known as Dutch-Bangla Bank BPL for sponsorship reasons, is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). It was formed in 2011 by the BCB, after the su ...

2010–11 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

* Federation Cup: 2011–12 *

Pokhara Cup The Pokhara Cup, currently known as the Manakamana Cable Car Pokhara Cup, is an international football tournament held in Pokhara, Nepal, organized by the ANFA Kaski. For sponsorship reasons it was formerly known as the Safal Pokhara Cup. Histor ...

: 2011 Sheikh Russel KC *

2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sp ...

* Federation Cup:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

* Independence Cup: 2012–13 Chittagong Abahani Limited * Independence Cup:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Bashundhara Kings *

: 2018–19 * Independence Cup:

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Abahani Limited Dhaka * Independence Cup:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* Federation Cup:

References

1987 births Living people People from Chandpur District Bangladeshi men's footballers Bangladesh men's international footballers Bangladesh men's youth international footballers Fakirerpool Young Men's Club players Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club players Abahani Limited Dhaka players Mohammedan SC (Dhaka) players Sheikh Russel KC players Bashundhara Kings players Chittagong Abahani Limited players Farashganj SC players Muktijoddha Sangsad KC players Men's association football fullbacks Footballers at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games footballers for Bangladesh South Asian Games gold medalists for Bangladesh South Asian Games medalists in football Medalists at the 2010 South Asian Games Bangladesh Premier League footballers Footballers from Chittagong Division 21st-century Bangladeshi sportsmen {{Bangladesh-footy-bio-stub