Bengaluru FC striker Sunil Chhetri feels proud of his team after winning the 36th Federation Cup 2015 final against Dempo SC on Sunday.

“Winning the Federation Cup is always a pleasant feeling,” Chhetri told after the match. “When you keep winning matches and you keep scoring goals you start to forget about it the very next day. In eight months, hopefully, we’ll be talking about the next I-League that we won. Any victory means everything to us and right now it’s the Federation Cup.”

“A lot players came in and a lot of youngsters are doing really well. Having said that I hope there were a lot more gaps in the schedule because you’re putting a lot of pressure on the players and a lot of them are playing under risk.”

“As the gaffer said, six games in 14 days is a schedule you won’t hear of anywhere else in the world. It wasn’t easy to pull through the tournament, not only for us but every team in the tournament especially Dempo and us who went all the way. I hope we can plan this tournament much better in the future so that the youngsters can recover and play well and as much as they can.”

“It’s only because I’m part of a great team here,” the Bengaluru FC and India skipper told about his current form. “We’re improving every day we play. When you take part in six games over a 14 day period, it’s very important to look after ourselves and stay together as a team, not only on the pitch but off it as well. Despite all the goals we score that everyone talks about, those are secondary. Winning matches as a team is always the primary objective. We celebrate every goal as a team, we score as a team and we concede as a team.”

“As we said, in our team it doesn’t matter who scores. Even if I had scored none and had won the tournament, I’d have felt the same. Honestly, in our team it’s not about who’s scoring goals. It’s always been about winning games. Robin (Singh) came on and scored a very important goal, Sean has been scoring, Eugeneson (Lyngdoh) scored an important goal. It’s always good to have different scorers and prolific goal-scorers but it’s never been the focal point of our team.”

“It’s not tough at all as there’s not much responsibility at all. I’m just like any other player. I’m just given small duties just like the other players. It’s a bunch of very peculiar and very particular things to do and it becomes very easy to do. Everyone’s given a specific set of things to do and they all know what’s expected of them. That makes our team click and carry on forward and I don’t think I’ve received any duty that’s different from those of any other player on the team,” Chhetri concluded.