Mumbai, Jan. 17 -- At a time when India's cricket heroes have demonstrated their crassness (think Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul) and are receiving widespread criticism for it, we fail to comprehend why someone like Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri doesn't get his due. Chhetri, who is second to Cristiano Ronaldo, in having scored the maximum goals in international football matches, even topping Argentina legend Lionel Messi on the list, hails from an Army family and rose up the ranks to become Indian football's face. We chanced upon his articulate charisma and obvious star power during a jugalbandi he had last year with spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, at a Bangalore book store. In it, the two men are shown discussing a range of issues from motivation, meditation, values, ethics and attitudes, which establish the football captain as a remarkable individual with a strikingly progressive approach to life. Sporting fans will remember Chhetri's spirited plea last year, when he took to social media to urge Indians to support the national football team by showing up at stadiums to motivate the squad during matches. Though the video had gone viral and received over 1,40,000 likes on Twitter and had been supported by the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Vir Das, Abhishek Bachchan, football and its heroes remain a poor second in comparison with cricket. In his chat with the Sadhguru, the visibly-impressed spiritual leader hinted at more substantial engagement with the sportsman aka Captain Fantastic, to popularise the game amongst India's youth. We hope many such initiatives spring up and succeed. Meanwhile, as we were saying, the fact that a man like Chhetri is not heard over the likes of Pandya and Rahul in our country, is something that should be of deep concern to all intelligent people....