DHAKA — Six hours. Forty thousand tickets. Gone. The Hamza Choudhury effect has officially broken Bangladesh football's box office, as the national team's Asian Cup qualifier sold out faster than any sporting event in the country's history.

The Leicester City midfielder, whose mother hails from Sylhet, will captain the side wearing the red-and-green for the first time at home. 'I grew up hearing stories of Dhaka's football fever from my grandmother. Now I will live it,' Hamza said, mobbed by fans at the airport.