New Delhi [India], Sunil Chhetri, a player who redefined the standards of Indian football and emerged as an inspiration not only for his country but also in the international circuit, on Thursday ended his career with the Blue Tigers. Decided to end. Chhetri took to Twitter to announce his retirement from international football. H will dance his last dance in Indian colors in front of the home fans at the Sal Lake Stadium against Kuwait on June 6. The 39-year-old posted a video on Instagram in which he reminisced about his career which started in 2005 in a friendly against Pakistan on June 12. “There is a day that I never forget and often remember when I played for my country for the first time, man it was incredible.But the day before, in the morning of the day, Sukhi sir, my first national team coach, in the morning he came to me and he said, you are going to start? I can't tell you how I was feeling, I took my jersey, I sprayed some perfume on it, I don't know why, that day, everything happened like that, once he told me, from breakfast to From lunch and the game to my first goal on my debut, scoring the goal at the end of the 80th minute that day is probably a day I will never forget and it is one of the best days for my national team. Travel," Chhetri said in a social media post. , Family first, my dad, he was normal, he was relieved, happy, everything, but my mom and my wife started crying and told him, you always used to bother me that there are too many games, when there is a lot of pressure You are looking at me and now that I am telling you this, you know that I will not play for my country after this game. And even those who couldn't, couldn't express to me why they were, they burst into tears. It wasn't that I was feeling tired, it wasn't that I was feeling this or that. When the instinct came that this should be my last game, then I thought about it a lot," Chhetri concluded. Sunil Chhetri started his professional football journey in 2002 at Mohun Bagan.Chhetri helped India win the 2007, 2009 and 2012 Nehru Cups, as well as the 2011, 2015, 2021. And the 2023 SAFF Championship. He also led India to victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, helping India qualify for their first AFC Asia Cup in 27 years. Chhetri received the Arjuna Award in 2011 and the Padma Shri in 2019. Becoming the first footballer to receive India's highest sporting honour, the Khel Ratna Award, in a career spanning over 19 years, the Arjuna Award winner has scored 94 goals in 150 matches on the international stage. The most capped Indian footballer is in third place, with goalscorers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi ahead of him on the global stage.