Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri to pursue degree in Sports Management

Xtra Time Web Desk: Indian football team captain Sunil Chhetri has decided to pursue a degree in Sports Management. Chhetri has recently enrolled his name in ISDE Law Business School in sports management. ISDE works in tandem with Spanish giants FC Barcelona and is considered as one of the most prestigious institutes for Sports Management.

According to a report in The Telegraph, the online one-year course started last month. Chhetri has been given complete 100% scholarship by the institute.

The international football’s third-highest active scorer after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, will get a postgraduate degree after completion of 1 year course.

Sunil will join an elite list of international football stars who has got a sports management degree. Former German team captain and Bayern Munich CEO Oliver Kahn has got a MBA degree.  Former Belgium and Manchester City captain Vincent Company is pursuing higher studies in Sports Management & also has just completed Master’s in Business Administration. There are other players as well who has done a sports management degree. The likes of Juan Mata, Giorgio Chiellini, Frank Lampard, Andres Iniesta and Romelu Lukaku holds degree in Sports Management.