Abdus Sadeque

Abdus Sadeque (Bengali: আবদুস সাদেক, Urdu: عبدالصادق; born 18 September 1946) is a former Pakistani and Bangladeshi field hockey player.

He was selected for training as a field hockey player when he was a high school student in Dacca in the early 1960s.

[8] He was a member of the East Pakistan field hockey team which played exhibition matches at Lyallpur, Rawalpindi, Sheikhupura, Lahore and Multan in April 1968.

[12][13] In August 1969, he was selected to Pakistan hockey team under the captaincy of Khalid Mahmood for the European tour.

There were four other observers in the team namely Ibrahim Saber, Mudassar Asghar, Samiullah Khan and Iftikhar Ahmed Syed.

Representing Pakistan on the right-half position, he played against Lower Saxony at Braunschweig, West Germany on 9 September 1969.

[18] Sadeque was appointed captain of the first Bangladesh hockey team when it took part in the 1978 Asian Games held in Bangkok, Thailand.

Sadeque joined newly-formed Abahani Krira Chakra in 1972, on persuasion by one of the club's founding members, Sheikh Kamal.

[28][29] The following year, Sadeque, along with renowned local coaches Sheikh Shaheb Ali and Abdur Rahim, was involved in the selection process of the Bangladesh U19 national team for the 1978 AFC Youth Championship held in Dhaka.