Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri made an emotional appeal to fans requesting them to watch football and support the team in the ongoing Intercontinental Cup 2018, which is taking place at Mumbai football arena.
Sunil thanked the fans for coming in numbers to support India against Chinese Taipei where the host nation thrashed Taipei 5-0, their biggest marginal win in 10 years. Chhetri has scored 59 goals in 99 matches and is placed at third position after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the list of highest goal scorers of the active footballers currently, a fact which will make every Indian feel proud of the achievement.
“Today I am not making a video for you guys. I am gonna speak and appeal to all of you who did not come. To everyone who is not a football fan, please come and watch us for two reasons. No. 1, it’s the best game in the world and No. 2, we play for our country. We will make sure that once you come to watch us, you will not return the same person back home. Please come and watch us,” Sunil said in a video message.
Chhetri further requested the football fans to loudly support the team saying, “Who knows, one day we might change you guys! You might start cheering for us.”
There is a huge fan support for the giant European clubs amongst the Indians and Sunil requested all of them to also support the national team and come and watch them from stadium “To all of you who are fans of big European clubs and support European clubs with so much passion, thinking that the level is not the same. Agreed, the level is not the same, it is not even close. But with our desire and determination, we will make sure to make your time worth. To all of you who have lost hope, I request you to come and watch us in the stadiums.”
Further, the Indian football skipper made a special request to those who did not watch the first fixture of Intercontinental cup.
“To all of you fans who could not come or did not come due to delay, work and school, please come and watch us in the stadiums. You guys have no idea how important you are and your support is. So, today I am requesting all of you to come and support us on 4th, 7th and hopefully 10th June when we are playing in Mumbai. Encourage us, watch us, abuse us, criticise us and talk about the game. Go back home and have discussions, or make banners, but please get involved.”
He signed off by saying “Jai Hind“
India will take on Kenya in their second clash and the match will be more special for Sunil as he will play his 100th match in the blue jersey.
This is nothing but a small plea from me to you. Take out a little time and give me a listen. pic.twitter.com/fcOA3qPH8i
— Sunil Chhetri (@chetrisunil11) June 2, 2018
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