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Sunil Chhetri

1984 - Today

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Sunil Chhetri (Nepali: [sunil t͡sʰet̪ri], born 3 August 1984) is an Indian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Indian Super League club Bengaluru. He is the all-time top scorer in ISL history, the fourth-highest international goalscorer, and the most-capped player and all-time top goalscorer of the India national team. He is widely regarded as the greatest Indian football player and one of the greatest internationally. Chhetri began his professional career at Mohun Bagan in 2002, moving to JCT where he scored 21 goals in 48 games. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2024). Sunil Chhetri is the 6,217th most popular soccer player (down from 3,894th in 2024), the 948th most popular biography from India (down from 716th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sunil Chhetri ranks 6,217 out of 21,273. Before him are Mustafa El Haddaoui, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Hiroshi Ichihara, Daniel Fernandes, Labid Khalifa, and Vedran Runje. After him are Igor Korneev, Joop Hiele, Andy Auld, Alphonso Davies, Khéphren Thuram, and Tetsuya Totsuka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1984, Sunil Chhetri ranks 210. Before him are Aarthi Agarwal, He Jiankui, Álvaro Bautista, Camila Bordonaba, Hannes Þór Halldórsson, and Siphiwe Tshabalala. After him are Alex Scott, Mounir El Hamdaoui, Anthony Johnson, Jackson Rathbone, Aram Mp3, and Mónica Spear.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sunil Chhetri ranks 948 out of 1,861. Before him are John Hunt, Baron Hunt (1910), Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi (1907), Huma Qureshi (1986), Bindu (1951), Zareen Khan (1987), and Lalita Pawar (1916). After him are Arvind Swamy (1970), Sonal Mansingh (1944), Sugata Mitra (1952), Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938), Anupam Tripathi (1988), and Zohra Sehgal (1912).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In India

Among soccer players born in India, Sunil Chhetri ranks 3. Before him are Bhaichung Bhutia (1976), and Harold Walden (1887). After him are Gurpreet Singh Sandhu (1992), Subrata Paul (1986), Pritam Kotal (1993), Jeje Lalpekhlua (1991), Sandesh Jhingan (1993), and Anirudh Thapa (1998).

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