All the national footballers are set to back into business as the residential training camp of the national team against Afghanistan for joint qualifiers of Qatar World Cup and China Asian Cup begins today in the city.

The preliminary selected 26 booters have been asked to report to team manager Satyajit Das Rupu with necessary sports gears today at 6 pm at Fars’ Hotel and Resort.

Bangladesh will play their first match of the qualifiers against Afghanistan on September 10 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

National team’s head coach Jamie Day, however, have to start the camp without seven Abahani players, who are with the club for AFC Cup’s inter-zone semifinal playoffs on August 21 and 28.

The English born coach will get the full squad from the second-phase training camp to be held in Dushanbe.

The national team is expected to leave for Tajikistan on September 1.