Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim ( 1952 – 5 January 2022) was a

Bangladeshi Bangladeshis ( bn, বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay. Bangladeshi citizenship was formed in 1971, when the ...

football coach and former player. He spent his entire club career with

Brothers Union Brothers Union is a football club based in Gopibag, Dhaka. The club was founded in 1949 and the regal business tycoon Kazi Ghiyasuddin Ahmed, better known as K. G. Ahmed served as the founder chairman of the club. At the beginning it was a well ...

and had both played and coached the Bangladesh national team. Selim captained Bangladesh during the

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, which was the country's first ever appearance in a major tournament and also the only time they qualified for the

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to date.

Club career

During the

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in 1971,

shut down the club's activities, after the war ended, Selim started reorganizing the players in 1972, and also managed to attain the services of Pakistani coach Abdul Gafur Baloch. During the early years of the club's rebirth, the players used to train in Selim's older brother

Saifuddin Ahmed Manik Saifuddin Ahmed Manik was a Bangladeshi communist politician. Early life Manik was born on 24 June 1939 in Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, British India. After the Partition of India in 1947, his family moved to Gopibagh, Dhaka. He studied and graduated ...

's four-storey building in 48 Ramakrishna Mission Road, Gopibagh, due to the team's financial difficulties. This is why he is seen as one of the founding members of Brothers Union, even though the club was established in 1949. Selim spent ten years captaining "The Oranges" during which Brothers became the third best club in the country behind

Abahani Krira Chakra Abahani Limited Dhaka ( bn, ঢাকা আবাহনী লিমিটেড), also referred as Dhaka Abahani or Abahani Limited, is a Bangladeshi professional football club based in the Dhanmondi area of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The club cur ...

and Mohammedan SC. In 1973, Brothers won the third division, and in 1974, Selim captained Brothers to another promotion by winning the second-tier. In 1975, Brothers Union took part in the country's top-tier the

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for the first time, and surprised the whole country by defeating defending champions Abahani Krira Chakra during their first league encounter. Selim remained Brothers captain until 1978. In 1980, Selim was part of the team which won the

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alongside Mohammedan SC. The following year he won the

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with Brothers, alongside Thai club

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International career

In 1975, Selim made his international debut, when Bangladesh decided to participate at the

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, in

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. This was only the second time that Bangladesh took part in an international tournament, and the national team coach at the time Abdur Rahim included Selim in the team as the main center-back

Monwar Hossain Nannu Monwar Hossain Nannu (27 August 1948 – 16 February 2008) was a Bangladeshi professional football player during the 1970s and early 1980s. Initially, He played as an attacking midfielder for Abahani Limited Dhaka in Dhaka League. Following an i ...

was injured. He captained the Bangladesh U20 team during the

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. In 1978, when several players quit the national team after a captaincly dispute involving Mohammedan's Shaidhur Rahman Shantoo and Abahani's Nannu, the federation decided to refrain from selecting captains from the two Dhaka teams, Selim was named the national team captain, in 1980. He captained the Bangladesh team during the

, in

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Managerial career

After retirement from football as a player, Selim started coaching in the lower divisions and regularly trained City Club. In 1987, he lead Bangladesh Boys Club to the Dhaka Third Division League title. In 1988, he made his

debut as a coach with the newly promoted

Fakirerpool Young Men's Club Fakirerpool Young Men's Club ( bn, ফকিরেরপুল ইয়াং মেনস ক্লাব ) is a football team from Dhaka, Bangladesh. It is currently a team of Bangladesh Championship League (BCL). History Team records Head ...

. In his first season, Fakirerpool finished sixth in the league and reached the Super League round. On 16 March 1990, Selim lead Fakirerpool to a 2–1 victory over Mohammedan SC, which ended their record of being unbeaten in the league for one thousand six hundred and fifty days. Selim got his coaching license in 1990 in

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. In 1991, Selim was appointed as head coach of his former club

. In the

final that year, Brothers defeated Mohammedan on penalties to win their first solo major title. The title triumph earned him a chance to coach the Bangladesh national team at the

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. Selim guided Bangladesh to a third place finish, by defeating

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2–0. During the same tournament, Selim became the first national team coach to defeat

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giants

, thanks to a brace from striker

Rizvi Karim Rumi Rizvi Karim Rumi ( bn, রিজভী করিম রুমি; born 18 May 1968) is a retired Bangladeshi professional footballer who played both as a winger and as a striker for the Bangladesh national football team. Rumi captained Banglad ...

. From 1994 to 2009 he was the joint secretary of the Brothers Union. Selim was the vice president of the Gopibagh-based club from 2010 until his death in 2022.

Personal life and death

Bangladeshi communist politician, the

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, was Selim's older brother and one of the founding members of

. He died from oral cancer on 5 January 2022, at the age of 69.

Honours

Player

Brothers Union * Dhaka Third Division League: 1973 * Dhaka Second Division League: 1974 *

: 1980 *

: 1981

Manager

Bangladesh Boys * Dhaka Third Division League: 1987 Brothers Union *

: 1991 Bangladesh *

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Bronze medal:

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References

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