Sunil Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri is genuinely one of those athletes who deserves far more global recognition than he gets, and I'll die on that hill. Here's a guy who became the fourth-highest international goalscorer in the history of football — ranking above countless household European names — while playing for a country that most football fans wouldn't even list among the top fifty. He built Bengaluru FC into a genuine powerhouse, earned the Arjuna Award, the Padma Shri, and the Khel Ratna, and spent two decades being the face of Indian football almost entirely on his own terms. What really gets me is that he didn't just score goals — he single-handedly made people in India care about the sport. That's a different kind of legacy.

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Name (English)

Sunil Chhetri

Name (Japanese)

スニル・チェトリ

Reading

すにる・ちぇとり

Born

August 3, 1984 (age 42)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rat

Origin

Secunderabad, Hyderabad district, India

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player

University

University of Calcutta

Awards & achievements

• 2011 Arjuna Award
• 2019 Padma Shri in sports
• 2021 Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award in Sports and Games

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chetri_sunil11/
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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunil%20Chhetri
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561004

Tags

• Hyderabad district
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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