{"id":10952,"date":"2021-10-11T18:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T13:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=158281"},"modified":"2021-10-11T21:07:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:37:14","slug":"sunil-chhetri-equals-record-of-legend-pele-with-77-international-goals-after-his-83rd-minute-strike-against-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/sunil-chhetri-equals-record-of-legend-pele-with-77-international-goals-after-his-83rd-minute-strike-against-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Chhetri equals record of legend Pele with 77 international goals after his 83rd-minute strike against Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Sunil Chhetri\u2019s 77th strike against Nepal at 83rd minute to help them win by 1-0 and equalized his 77th goal with the football great Pele. Even at Chhetri\u2019s advanced age of 37, he is still the main scorer for team India, his goal against Nepal was very crucial because it saved them from elimination.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL-TIME! \u231b\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>3\u20e3 points for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BlueTigers?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BlueTigers<\/a> \ud83d\udc2f, as a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chetrisunil11?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@chetrisunil11<\/a> winner hands India the win over Nepal! \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf5 0-1 \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5FT7ytRgJF\">https:\/\/t.co\/5FT7ytRgJF<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEPIND?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NEPIND<\/a> \u2694\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SAFFChampionship2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SAFFChampionship2021<\/a> \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BackTheBlue?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BackTheBlue<\/a> \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndianFootball?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndianFootball<\/a> \u26bd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VC9KkbNRK8\">pic.twitter.com\/VC9KkbNRK8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Indian Football Team (@IndianFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IndianFootball\/status\/1447259009283551233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep getting asked about my consistency, and I wish I had an answer. But the truth is there is no blueprint. It\u2019s more about wanting to turn up every single day and give it my best, which, thankfully I have never fallen short of,\u201d Chhetri told PTI.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian forward has played alongside many Indian greats like Bhaichung Bhutia and Renedy Singh, besides his international success for India, he is also one of the best I-League. He also added, \u201cI have been extremely lucky to have played with some great footballers who do not get enough credit. I have learned something from every single coach I have played for. It\u2019s the coming together of many things, it\u2019s both big and small, I hope to keep doing in the foreseeable future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Chhetri\u2019s equalling Pele\u2019s record 77 goals in 123 appearances his hunger to score more doesn\u2019t seem to stop, as of now is the 3rd highest international scorer just behind Messi (79) and Ronaldo (112).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chhetri equalizes Pele\u2019s international goal record (77) and doesn\u2019t seem that he will stop soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1900,321,487,2648,2800,127],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-all-india-football-federation","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-lionel-messi","tag-pele","tag-saff-championship","tag-sunil-chhetri"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}