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New Delhi : Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri announced that he taking retirement from international career after the country’s FIFA World Cup qualification match against Kuwait, scheduled for June 6.
The 39-year-old striker revealed his decision by sharing a video on his social media accounts.
In a video posted on X, he said that India’s World Cup qualification match against Kuwait would be his last game.
Chhetri, 39, has played for the country for 19 years, having scored his first goal during his debut match in 2005.
He has been part of the title-winning Indian teams in the AFC Challenge Cup in 2008, the SAFF Championship in 2011 and 2015, the Nehru Cup in 2007, 2009 and 2012, as well as the Intercontinental Cup in 2017 and 2018.
At the moment, he holds the record of being the third-highest scorer of international goals among active footballers, after Argentina’s Lionel Messi and Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo.
