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Asia Cup Football Qualifiers With No General Public Disappointed Sunil Chhetri

Asia Cup Football Qualifiers With No General Public Disappointed Sunil Chhetri

Indian Football icon Sunil Chhetri was disappointed when he found out no tickets will be available during Asia Cup qualifiers. India will be playing soon for the Asia Cup Group D qualifiers at Salt lake Stadium. The qualifiers will begin from 8th June to 14th June. The games will be at home, and still there will be no crowd cheering for team India.

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Asia Cup Football Qualifiers With No General Public Disappointed Sunil Chhetri

Indian Captain Sunil Chhetri was very disappointed when hearing that no tickets will be sold for the matches. He did not hide his dissatisfaction and said, “When Mohun Bagan played at 4 o’clock (in the AFC Cup), there were 38,000 people. How is it that we are finding it difficult to sell tickets (for 8.30 pm kick-offs) when the national team is playing? The same thing happened in Mumbai. If there are no fans for the game, I understand. When the national team is playing in the Northeast, in Kerala, it’s jam-packed. It doesn’t make sense.”

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Asia Cup Football Qualifiers With No General Public Disappointed Sunil Chhetri

“The least I was expecting was 30,000 because, at 4 o’clock, they came for Mohun Bagan. We are happy that we are hosting it (the tournament), but (such little turnout) it would make no difference. When we come to play (here) for Bengaluru FC against Mohun Bagan and East Bengal, we feel it as an away side and it’s intimidating. So, they should fill (the stands), and then we can say we have home advantage. If in a stadium of almost 90,000, only 10,000-15,000 people turn up, then what’s the point of having a home advantage? We go to training, there are 100 people, man! I don’t understand how?” Chhetri further stated.

Asia Cup Football Qualifiers With No General Public Disappointed Sunil Chhetri

The Indian team will be playing in Kolkata after a huge gap of three years, and having no one to cheer will lower the team’s morale. Sunil Chhetri liked the crowd cheering for their team when he led India to the Continental championship.

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