Indian football legend Sunil Chhetri has announced his retirement. India and Kuwait will face each other in the World Cup Qualifier on June 6 and this will be captain Sunil Chhetri’s last international match for India. With this, Sunil Chhetri’s 20 year long brilliant career will come to an end. Sunil Chhetri announced his retirement by sharing a video on social media.

Sunil Chhetri’s close friend and Team India’s veteran batsman Virat Kohli has commented on that video post, which is going viral on social media very fast. Actually, Virat Kohli has written on Sunil Chhetri’s post – My brother, proud of you… It is known that both of them consider each other like brothers and both have been seen with each other many times. Both of them respect each other a lot.

Virat Kohli’s comment on Sunil Chhetri’s retirement post. pic.twitter.com/Qtm6X0PpQl

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Sunil Chhetri is at third place in terms of scoring goals.

Apart from Virat, many celebrities including FIFA IPL team Royal Challengers Bangalore and BCCI have expressed their views on Sunil Chhetri’s retirement. Let us tell you that Sunil Chhetri served his country for almost 20 years. In his illustrious career, he played 145 matches for India, in which he scored 93 goals.

Talking about the current football players, Sunil Chhetri has scored the most goals after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Announcing his retirement, Sunil Chhetri shared the video and said, “The things I remember in the last 19 years… are the balance of duty, pressure and immense happiness. Personally, I never thought that this is the game I played for the country, whenever I train with the national team, I enjoy it.”

Sunil Chhetri made his debut in the year 2005 and today he is among the most successful footballers in the world. Hearing the news of his retirement, everyone is congratulating him.