{"id":24681,"date":"2016-03-21T15:55:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=24681"},"modified":"2016-03-21T15:55:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T22:55:52","slug":"sunil-chhetri-to-miss-indias-2018-fifa-world-cup-qualifier-vs-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/03\/21\/sunil-chhetri-to-miss-indias-2018-fifa-world-cup-qualifier-vs-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunil Chhetri to miss India\u2019s 2018 Fifa World Cup qualifier vs Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindustan Times &#8211; NEW DELHI, <strong>Influential skipper Sunil Chhetri has been ruled out of India\u2019s Fifa 2018 World Cup qualifier against Iran owing to a groin injury, dealing a body blow to the beleaguered outfit\u2019s prospects of putting up a fight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The match for the Russia 2018 World Cup Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 2 is slated to be played in Tehran on Thursday. A 22-member team on Monday left for the forthcoming game.<\/p>\n<p>Six players from the list of 28 probables, including injured striker Chhetri, didn\u2019t travel with the squad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to take some bold decisions and we have to travel to Tehran without our influential captain Sunil Chhetri,\u201d national coach Stephen Constantine said.<br \/>\n\u201cHe will be badly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chhetri has been ruled out following a groin injury which he had picked up in the I-League.<br \/>\n\u201cThe injury is such that it requires him to take necessary care and that requires him to stay back in India and get treated,\u201d Constantine said.<\/p>\n<p>A disappointed Chhetri couldn\u2019t recall as to when he last missed an international match due to injury.<br \/>\n\u201cI was sitting at my room trying to recall as to when I last missed a national team match for injury. It\u2019s so disappointing. It\u2019s such an important match for us and I still can\u2019t believe that I would be missing it,\u201d Chhetri said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gaffer had a chat with Gigy sir (team physio Gigy George) and decided to leave me out of the squad to enable me time to get treated and get ready for the next game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the moment it is obviously not a good feeling to have missed the bus but maybe in the long run, it will probably be for good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chhetri lauded Constantine\u2019s initiative of summoning Dhanpal Ganesh and Robin Singh to get their rehabilitation assessed, monitored, checked and advised by the medical staff of the national team.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Chhetri, TP Reheneesh, Rino Anto, Allwyn George, Malsawmzuala and Md. Rafique have been dropped for the match against Iran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>India squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers: Subrata Paul, Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, Karanjit Singh<\/p>\n<p>Defenders: Aiborlang Khongjee, Augistine Fernandes, Arnab Mondal, Pritam Kotal, Sandesh Jhingan, Narayan Das, Lalchhuanmawia<\/p>\n<p>Midfielders: Pronay Halder, Bikash Jairu, Cavin Lobo, Rowlin Borges, Francis Fernandes, Harmanjot Singh Khabra, Udanta Singh, Vineet Rai, Seityasen Singh<\/p>\n<p>Forwards: Jeje Lalpekhlua, Sumeet Passi, Halicharan Narzary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindustan Times &#8211; NEW DELHI, Influential skipper Sunil Chhetri has been ruled out of India\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":24682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,84,91,86,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c17-asian-competitions","category-c47-featured-news","category-c20-other-news","category-c13-team-melli-news","category-world-cup"],"views":2297,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}