Kazi Mahmud Hasan

In 1965, Hasan was selected by Dhaka First Division League club Central Printing Press. In 1966, he participated in the Aga Khan Gold Cup with East Pakistan Government Press. In the same year, he participated in the National Championship after finishing East Zone runners-up with Dhaka University team.^[1]

In 1966, he was selected to play in the Dhaka League for Victoria Sporting Club, for which he also played in the Aga Khan Gold Cup. In 1969, Hasan represented the Pakistan national team at the 1969 RCD Cup held in Ankara, Turkey.^[2][3][4][5] He also toured Iran with the national team.^[6][3][4] Hasan retired as player on 1974 due to an injury during a game against Dhaka University, where he scored the winning goal through a free kick, but ultimately had to leave the pitch after receiving a foul by Pearu of the opposite team.^[1] The same year, Hasan took eight months of training course in East Germany, and later coached the Bangladesh Army Football Team, guiding the side to win the National Championship jointly with Dhaka University in 1980 and 1981. Hasan was also the founding member of Dhaka based Sonali Otit Club.^[4]

Hasan was enlisted to Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul at the eve of Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 through the Pakistan emergency war cadre in Inter Services Selection Board and was commissioned on the Pakistan Army Corps of Service on 1966. After joining the Pakistan Army he subsequently represented the Pakistan Army football team, where he also captained on several occasions. In 1968, he successfully completed a football training course in Karachi, and in 1969, under his leadership, Pakistan Army won the Inter-Army Football Championship. While serving in West Pakistan, Hasan commanded two supply and transport battalion as major on Lahore Cantonment and Karachi Cantonment. He was detained during the Bangladesh Liberation War on Karachi Cantonment and repatriated to Bangladesh on 1973.^[1] He was promoted to lieutenant colonel and joined the Bangladesh Army Football Team the same year. After his emeritus from football career in 1974 he was appointed as commandant of Army School of Physical Training and Sports. He was promoted to colonel on 1980 and tenured as colonel administrative of Rangpur area headquarters. He was furthermore, the station commander at Cumilla Cantonment. On 1988 Hasan was ameliorated to brigadier general and was designated as director general of Special Security Force. Hasan retired from the army on 1989 and kept serving the special security forces till 1991 and was succeeded by brigadier general Jamilud Din Ahsan as director general. On December 1991 he was transferred to Ministry of Foreign Affairs as defence attache to Sweden. He went to retirement from administrative services on 1993.

An army staff officer during the regime of president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, Hasan joined the Kazi Zafar Ahmed faction of Jatiya Party during the 10th parliamentary elections. Hasan was the first General Secretary of Army Sports Control Board of Bangladesh, and received National Sports Award in 1981.^[1]

Hasan died on the night of Tuesday 4 February 2014 at the United Hospital in Dhaka, due to a cardiac arrest at the age of 68. Hasan was taken to the hospital after he had fallen sick in his residence around 9:00pm and the doctors there declared him dead around two hours later. His body has been kept at the mortuary of Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka Cantonment.^{[4][7][3][8][9]}