All the 7,000 tickets at the Mumbai Football Arena were sold out days ahead of the match after Chhetri’s appeal went viral. The video Tweet from @chetrisunil11 has been retweeted almost 60,000 times, Twitter India said on Wednesday.
In his video message, Chhetri said:“Abuse us, criticize us but please come to watch the Indian national team play.”To all of you, who have lost hope or don’t have any hope in Indian football, we request you to come and watch us in the stadium.”The then India national captain made the appeal after just around 2,500 fans came to watch their previous game.