{"id":44148,"date":"2023-07-05T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/07\/05\/sunil-chhetri-indian-footballer-in-the-same-league-as-messi-and-ronaldo\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:15:58","slug":"sunil-chhetri-indian-footballer-in-the-same-league-as-messi-and-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=44148","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Chhetri: Indian footballer in the same league as Messi and Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Speaking about their chances in the Asian Cup in Doha in January (where India has been grouped with World Cup regulars Australia, Uzbekistan and Syria), Chhetri said: &#8220;It&#8217;s evidence of the progress we have made and a big step forward. At the same time, it is a small step in the context of where we want to be. If you take top Asian teams &#8211; Japan, Iran, Saudi Arabia &#8211; you will see they always want to play with better and higher ranked teams. That&#8217;s how you improve. At the Asian Cup we will play higher ranked teams. That&#8217;s when you can judge your progress, how much you have improved as a team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-66106345?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Speaking about their chances in the Asian Cup in Doha in January (where India has been grouped with World Cup regulars Australia, Uzbekistan and Syria), Chhetri said: &#8220;It&#8217;s evidence &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}