Indian soccer champion Sunil Chhetri looks forward to add 3 more goals to his tally and make it into the top 10 scorers when the Blue Tigers face Bangladesh in the first leg of the 2021 SAFF Championship on Monday, October 4 in Male, Maldives. The outstanding striker has 75 international goals from 120 games and still needs two more strikes to equal the record of Brazilian actor Pele’s s with 77 goals.

Apart from the match against Bangladesh, Igor Stimac's boys are scheduled to play at least four international matches and the star striker will definitely be looking at his numbers in those games.

Chhetri scored the winning goal against Nepal when the teams closed the international friendly at the beginning of last month. In addition, the 37-year-old scored against Jamal Bhuyan and Co in the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in June this year which helped the Blue Tigers beat their Asian neighbors 2-0 in Doha. The veteran will be aiming to bring that form to the SAFF Championship again, as India's hopes of winning the eighth title remain largely on his shoulders.

Meanwhile, seven SAFF champions, in India, will be playing their first tournament since the start of the Intercontinental Cup in 2019. The Blue Tigers have won three times in the last five books, but in the previous SAFF Championship program, the Maldives beat India 2- 1 to deny them.

The Stimac men have not lost in the last three matches, beating SAFF rivals Bangladesh and Nepal, including the international friendly matches and FIFA 2022, the AFC 202 qualifiers. -SAFF for a successful victory over Sri Lanka.