its not often that you see jampacked stadiums in india when it comes to football matches but then never before has team india yup why not call indian national football team also by this name captain sunil chhetri requested fans to come and cheer for them and that was how when team india played against kenya on monday in the intercontinental cup in mumbai fans swarmed the stadium cheering for the home side indias first match in the tournament against chinese taipei on friday was a disappointment in terms of audience turnout though the home team had a thumping 50 win which was what prompted chhetri to take to his social media page and post a video requesting fans to come to the stadium and watch the team play his post got the support of many stars including our cricket captain virat kohli who also asked fans to go to the stadium to watch the match and respond they did mondays match was a soldout event there were 8890 fans thronging the mumbai football arena the team ensured that it gave its fans a memorable match by winning it 30 against kenya the captain himself who was playing his 100th international match scored twice on monday and that makes it two backtoback wins for our heroes taking us to the finals of the tournament with such a neverseenbefore fan turnout indian football finally seems to be on the right track oneofakind atmosphere at the stadiumfans who attended the match on monday have only thing to talk about the atmosphere at the stadium which they say was like those during the international club matches i saw something like this in mumbai for the first time indias previous match against chinese taipei saw only around 2500 spectators including the ground staff now even the tickets for the finals on june 10 are sold out many of them who came to the stadium on monday were mostly cricket fans and those who dont generally follow indian football spectators were standing the entire 90 minutes of the match it felt as if we were attending some foreign club match as people screamed and cheered all through the match i have been watching indian matches in stadiums for the last four to five years but have never experienced an atmosphere akin to what i saw on monday says abhinav vasudevan from blue pilgrims a dedicated fan club of the indian national football team echoing abhinavs thoughts is former indian footballer im vijayan it was quite a happening match for two reasons one it was chettris 100th match and two the stadium was packed with spectators though it was raining so many people turned up we didnt expect such a big crowd in mumbai its a big thing that so many fans turned up in a city like mumbai which hasnt really seen success in football chettri has got such a big fan following i saw the video that he posted on