Indian Football team caption Sunil Chhetri on Thursday announced that he will retire from the national team after his side’s FIFA World Cup qualifier match against Kuwait in June.
Multiple hashtags paying tribute to India’s record goal-scorer started trending on X after the news. Sportspersons including cricketer Virat Kohli and Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra took to social media to congratulate Chhetri on his career.
“It was not that I was feeling tired,” Chhetri said in a video he posted on social media. “When the instinct came this should be my last game, I thought about it a lot and eventually I came to this decision. Will I be sad after this? Of course … the kid inside me never wants to stop if given a chance to play for his country. It’s time for our country to see the next number nine”, he said in the video. India will play in Kuwait while being second in qualifying Group A with four points, behind Qatar.
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