Posted on June 8th, 2021

India’s Pride Captain Sunil Chettri Surpasses the Legendary Player Lionel Messi in International Goals

India is proud as a peacock to have a player like Sunil Chettri. Players like him, be in any game, just play, play for their country or to progress in the game, irrespective and keeping out of mind that if they play well, glory will come to them, which does only because of their devotion to the game to help their team climb the first position, unknowingly they to become a good statistics table hiker.

Every minute counts!                      

Just like that Sunil Chettri mounts the second position in the active international goal scorer list with 74 goals. His 74th goal was incremented in the 79th minute of the game Blue Tigers were facing the Bangladesh Football Team at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar on the 7th of June, 2021.

In the very 79th minute, Sunil transcended Football Great Lionel Messi who just had hit his last (72nd) goal opposing the team of Chile on the 3rd of June, 2021 in the World Cup Qualifier. Also, did he outshone UAE player Ali Makhbout who has 73 goals. At the top shines the Portugal Star, Cristiano Ronaldo, well he is a world star but a FUN FACT about Ronaldo is that one galaxy that was discovered by the Astrophysicist is named after him, Cosmos Redshift 7 or CR7.

Have a look at the goal Chettri Scored at the Hamad Stadium,

Goes without saying that the fanbase of Chettri is on cloud nine and the player has received an immense number of praises too from all over the world.

This must have been the greatest and the most joyous moment of the players standing behind the tricolor.

Other than winning Sunil inspires the youth of India and the world too which itself is a very great achievement he has been bestowed with.


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