Veteran India striker Sunil Chhriet warns football in the country is on the brink as new crisis looms.
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter once called India a “sleeping giant” of football, but the sport is mired in a new crisis in the country, and faces problems from the top down to the grassroots.
The men’s national team are without a coach, and the Indian Super League (ISL) – India’s top competition – is in danger of collapsing over a dispute between the federation and its commercial partner.
“Everybody in the Indian football ecosystem is worried, hurt, scared about the uncertainty we are faced with,” Sunil Chhetri, the celebrated veteran striker, wrote on X about the fate of the ISL.
The former national skipper unwittingly summed up one of the issues facing Indian football when he came out of international retirement in March, aged 40.
