Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim

Shahid Uddin Selim
Brothers Union defender Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim.jpg
Personal information
Full name Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim
Date of birth c. 1952
Place of birth Dhaka, East Bengal, Pakistan (now Bangladesh)
Date of death (aged 69)
Place of death Dhaka, Bangladesh
Position(s) Centre-back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1970–1982 Brothers Union
National team
Bangladesh
Teams managed
1991–1994 Brothers Union
1991 Bangladesh
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Shahid Uddin Ahmed Selim (c. 1952 – 5 January 2022) was a Bangladeshi footballer who played as a centre-back. He spent the majority of his career with Brothers Union and was also an integral member of the Bangladesh national team during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Selim captained Bangladesh during the 1980 AFC Asian Cup, which was the country's first ever appearance in a major tournament and also the only time they qualified for the AFC Asian Cup to date.

Club career

During the Liberation war in 1971, Brothers Union shut down the club's activities, after the war ended, Selim started reorganizing the players in 1972, along with coach Gafur Baloch and teammate Khandoker Wasim Iqbal. During the early years of the club's rebirth, the players used to train in Selim's backyard, 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 Limited Dhaka and Mohammedan. Selim led Brothers to promotion by winning the second-tier in 1974. In 1975 his Brothers Union team took part in the Dhaka League, which was the top-tier league in Bangladesh, for the first time and surprised the whole country when they defeated giants Abahani Limited Dhaka during their first league encounter. In 1980, Selim captained the team winning the Federation Cup alongside Mohammedan. The following year he won the Aga Khan Gold Cup with Brothers, alongside Thai club Bangkok Bank FC.

Managerial career

Selim got his coaching license in 1990 in Bangalore, India. He managed the Bangladesh national football team during the 1991 South Asian Games and helped the country earn third place, by defeating Nepal 2–0. During the same tournament, Selim became the first national team coach to defeat arch-rivals India, thanks to a brace from striker Rizvi Karim Rumi. In 1991, Selim won the Federation Cup with Brothers Union. 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

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


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