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MUNICH: Thomas Tuchel says he is still leaving Bayern Munich after talks on extending his stay at the club fell through. Bayern said in February that Tuchel would leave at the end of the season but the coach said Friday that he held talks with the club on a 180-degree turn that would have seen him stay after all. We found no agreement on further cooperation so the agreement from February remains in force, he said. In the three months since Bayern said Tuchel was leaving, it has tried and failed
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU: As Sunil Chhetri sat contemplating how he would break his retirement plans to the world, he knew there was one man who would understand what exactly he was going through and Virat Kohli did not disappoint the iconic Indian football captain. The 39-year-old Chhetri, the most capped India footballer with 150 matches to his credit and the country's top-scorer with 94 goals, will hang up his boots after the World Cup qualifying match against Kuwait on June 6 in Kolkata. Chhetri'
CHENNAI : As soon as the tweet dropped, you feared the worst. By the time the man in the video (9m 51s) had stopped talking, Indias football fans were fighting back tears as they tried to accept a new reality. Sunil Chhetri, who had come to represent the only peak in a sport filled with troughs, was going to stop playing. Its not that I was feeling tired, not that I was feeling this or that, he reflected in the video. When the instinct came that this should be my last game, I thought about it a
NEW DELHI: As Sunil Chhetri gets closer to his final dance on the international circuit for the Indian football team, a look at his career which has been nothing short of a fairytale story that most players dream of living. Chhetri is not just a football star but a player who inspired the next generation by setting himself as an example of what one can achieve with hard work. He announced his retirement from international football on Thursday and will appear for one last time donning the colour
Stalwart Chhetri announces retirement, WC qualifier on June 6 to be his last game