In his recent tweet, he announced his retirement and told his fans, let’s Win the game and we can Depart Happily, qualification match of India’s Qualification match against Kuwait will be the last match of his football career.
He is the most famous and most celebrated sports player after King Kohli, Chhetri, 39, has played a Total of 19 years for India, Chettri secured his first goal in his debut match in 2005.
Spotlight on Indian football
India is a country of cricket country where you can find cricket lovers in every corner of the country from men to women everyone has an extreme fan of cricket. which is the main reason for the block of another sport to rise in India.
We can see kabbadi rise among the people but it was temporary in the country it could not beat the craze of cricket among the youth even in such an environment Sunil Chettri has created a separate space for football.
Indian footballers in the same league as Ronaldo & Messi
It will be shocking to hear but at present moments he holds the record for most goals after Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo. He is a brilliant spots player of football in Indian history who has to bring the interest of football into the minds of Indian youth. His retirement is the same as the retirement of M.S Dhoni in the cricket term, which is quite interesting that no one put the spotlight on this retirement as such an underrated player
Who’s next?
Now the question arises in the mind is that who will be next after him as it will be very challenging for the Indian team to get another Chettri it is like a replacement for M.S Dhoni.
As there are some players to hold the ship of the Indian team but are not like him, Chettri is famous for his strict diet which he continues to follow to date. And the future of the Indian football team seems to look a little twisted.
By Aryan Mohite