Dhaka, March 22 -- Football powerhouse Argentina has expressed willingness to provide training facilities for Bangladeshi footballers to help them become more skillful.

The issue was discussed briefly in a bilateral meeting between Argentine Minister for Foreign Affairs and Worship Jorge Marcelo Faurie and his Bangladesh counterpart Dr AK Abdul Momen in Buenos Aires on Thursday.

They met on the sidelines of the BAPA+40, the Second High-level UN Conference on South-South Cooperation, held in Buenos Aires, a press release of the Bangladesh Permanent Mission to the United Nations received here on Friday said.

Momen and Faurie recalled the contribution of Argentine writer and 'Friends of Liberation War Honour' award winner Victoria Ocampo ...