India, March 10 -- Sunil Chhetri is returning to action for the Indian national football team in the upcoming March FIFA window. The forward initially announced his international retirement in June last year, but then made an u-turn after head coach Manolo Marquez called him back to the squad.

In March, India are set to face Maldives in a friendly, and then take on Bangladesh in a must-win AFC Asian Cup qualifier.

Explaining his decision to bring Chhetri back to the squad, Marquez told in a post-match ISL press conference, "We are in a competition that we need to win and we need to score goals. Be it in open play or through set-pieces. In the four games under me, we have scored two goals and we need to score (more)," he said.

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