Sunil Chhetri announce retirement from international football, Captain of Indian Football team Sunil Chhetri announce retirement from international football. He will play last match in Indian jersey on 6th of june against Kuwait. Sunil Chhetri is the top goal scorer in indian football he played for indian over the two decades.
Sunil Chhetri went on to become one of the most influential Indian footballers, with the most caps for India, and sits in fourth spot behind Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Ali Daei in the list of all-time international goals. Chhetri, who has led the senior football team to several laurels, was honoured with the Padma Shri, India’s fourth-highest civilian award, in 2019 and the Khel Ratna Award in 2021.
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He posted his retirement on X profile he said “It’s not that I was feeling tired. When the instinct came that it should be my last game, that I thought about it a lot. And eventually I came to this decision. So will I be sad after this? Of course. Do I feel sad sometimes, every day because of this? Yes. Do I miss that after 20 days of training all of this will be gone? Yes. It’ll all be gone. Yes, it took time because this kid inside, he never wants to stop. If given a chance to play for his country, never,” he said in a video on social media.
“You know, the feeling that I recollect in the last 19 years is a very nice combination between duty, pressure and immense joy. I never thought individually these are the many games that I played for the country. This is what I’ve done, good or bad. But now I did it. This last one and a half, two months I did it.”
“I did it because probably I was going towards the decision that this game, this next game is going to be my last. And the moment I told myself first that this is the game that’s going to be my last, is when I started recollecting everything. It was so strange,” he added in the video.
“So when I did decide that this is going to be last, I told my mom, my dad and my wife, my family first. My dad was my dad, he was normal. He was relieved, happy, everything. But my mom and my wife strangely started crying and I told them, you always used to bug me that there are too many games, there is too much pressure when you watch me. And now that I’m telling you that I’m not going to play for my country anymore after this game. And even they couldn’t express to me why they burst into tears.”