India’s Sunil Chhetri, who hit a brace in his workforce’s 2-0 win over Bangladesh in Doha, on Monday overtook Argentina’s Lionel Messi to turn into the second-highest energetic worldwide goalscorer with 74 targets.
The 36-year-old striker, who helped India register their first win within the FIFA 2022 World Cup qualifiers, is behind Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo, who has 103 worldwide targets to his identify.
Now he has greater than Messi! Sunil Chhetri’s double helped Blue Tigers win 2-0 #wcq and leads him to 74 worldwide targets – one above Lionel Messi and one after getting into world soccer’s all-time high 10@chetrisunil11 | @IndianFootball pic.twitter.com/sCCd6BgS9H
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Chhetri additionally moved up the lads’s all-time listing of worldwide goalscorers and is now ranked eleventh. He is simply behind the trio of Hungarian Sandor Kocsis, Japan’s Kunishige Kamamoto and Kuwait’s Bashar Abdullah, who all have 75 targets.
Sitting simply behind him on the listing, Ali Mabkhout of the United Arab Emirates reached 73 after scoring towards Malaysia final week. Messi, then again, scored his 72nd worldwide objective towards Chile final Thursday.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
