{"id":36630,"date":"2019-03-26T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36630"},"modified":"2019-03-26T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:39:05","slug":"fifa-president-infantino-congratulates-chennai-city-on-winning-maiden-hero-i-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36630","title":{"rendered":"FIFA President Infantino congratulates Chennai City on winning maiden Hero I-League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-36629\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/infantio.jpg\" alt=\"infantio\" width=\"525\" style=\"margin: 1px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/infantio.jpg 738w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/infantio-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/infantio-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/infantio-696x468.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 738px) 100vw, 738px\" \/>FIFA President Gianni Infantino congratulated Chennai City FC for winning their maiden Hero I-League title, in a letter addressed to the All India Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was delighted to hear that Chennai City FC have been crowned 2018\/19 I-League Champions. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate them for their first ever championship title,\u201d wrote Infantino.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is, no doubt, the result of effort and hard work, and everybody involved can be proud of this great achievement. I encourage them to continue working with determination and motivation,\u201d he further stated. \u201cOn behalf of the entire football community, I take this opportunity to thank Chennai City FC and your federation for helping spread the positive message of football and foster the practice of this beautiful game that unites us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chennai City FC won their maiden Hero I-League title earlier this month, after a thrilling final-day finish, that saw them end the league with 43 points, just a point above Kolkata Giants Quess East Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIFA President Gianni Infantino congratulated Chennai City FC for winning their maiden Hero I-League title, in a letter addressed to the All India Football Federation. \u201cI was delighted to hear that Chennai City FC have been crowned 2018\/19 I-League Champions. It gives me great pleasure to congratulate them for their first ever championship title,\u201d wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-football-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FIFA President Infantino congratulates Chennai City on winning maiden Hero I-League Title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=36630\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIFA President Infantino congratulates Chennai City on winning maiden Hero I-League Title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FIFA President Gianni Infantino congratulated Chennai City FC for winning their maiden Hero I-League title, in a letter addressed to the All India Football Federation. \u201cI was delighted to hear that Chennai City FC have been crowned 2018\/19 I-League Champions. 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