Chencho Gyeltshen

He scored five minutes after entering the match in the 80th minute.

He was originally scheduled to return to Bhutan before the friendlies but was forced to stay a few days longer when his flight was cancelled.

While in Thailand, he was offered deals by Indian Super League clubs Delhi Dynamos and Pune City.

However, no official offers were ever presented.

The player said that if the offers had been made officially and had come a bit earlier he would have chosen to play in the ISL so that he could play alongside the stars that the league had been attracting in recent years.

Chencho Gyeltshen (born 10 May 1996) is a Bhutanese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 2 club Sriwijaya and captains the Bhutan national team.

Gyeltshen is the all-time leading international goalscorer for Bhutan.

He is affectionately nicknamed CG7 or Bhutanese Ronaldo, because of his style of play similar to that of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Gyeltshen is the first Bhutanese fully professional footballer.

Chencho Gyeltshen hails from Shapa Gewog, Paro District.

He started playing football in primary school, with his brother inspiring him to play.

He cites Cristiano Ronaldo as the player who is his inspiration.

From class six to ten, he studied in Loselling MSS and then moved to Ugyen Academy for class eleven and then attended Kelki Higher Secondary School until class XII.

He originally intended to become a martial artist before deciding to stop his studies to become a professional football player.

From 2008 to 2014, Gyeltshen played for Yeedzin in the Bhutan National League.

In 2013, he won the league championship with the club.

With the club, he also finished runner-up in the 2013 King's Cup.

The club was defeated by a score of 2–4 by Manang Marshyangdi of Nepal in the final despite Gyeltshen's two goal performance.

In 2014, he played for and was captain of Druk United of the Thimphu League.

He played for the team in the 2014 King's Cup and scored two goals against Indian club Mohun Bagan.

In 2014, he was offered to sign with Nepalese club Machhindra after his performance at the 2013 King's Cup and was reported to agree to join with the club but could not do so until the next year due to his studies.

In 2015, Chencho Gyeltshen played for Thimphu.

He made his league debut for the club against Thimphu City on 5 April.

He scored seventeen goals in ten matches in the Thimphu League and finished the season as the league's top scorer.

In early 2015, Gyeltshen went on a month-long trial with Buriram United of the Thai Premier League.

He played in friendlies against several Thai teams and scored the game-winning goal in the match against Thai Premier League club Sisaket after coming on as a second-half substitute.

With Buriram, Gyeltshen also won the Coke Cup Under-19 Championship in 2015.

In July 2015, Thai club Surin City, a reserve team of Buriram United, completed the signing of Gyeltshen from Thimphu United with the Bhutan international forward agreeing a 1.5 year contract with a monthly salary of Nu 100,000.

The offer was presented to the player by Alexandre Gama, manager of the first team.

With the contract, Gyeltshen became the first Bhutanese footballer to play professionally for an international club.

On 7 July 2015, it was revealed that the player had actually been signed by Buriram United along with two other players and was loaned immediately to Surin City.

Gyeltshen made his league debut for Surin City on 5 July 2015 in a match against Kalasin.

He was given the number 11 shirt.

By 24 September 2015, he had scored eight goals in eight league matches for Surin City, including a hat-trick, after 33 rounds of the 34 round season.

Surin finished in tenth position in the Northeast Division, missing out on qualification for the playoffs.

In 7 February 2016, it was announced that Gyeltshen would go on loan to Nonthaburi, also of the Thai Division 2.

Less than a month after it was announced that he would join Nonthaburi, it was announced that Gyeltshen had terminated his contract with Buriram United and signed a 2-year contract with Satun United.

Following the season, it was announced that Gyeltshen was leaving the club.

Following his departure from Satun United, Gyeltshen returned to Bhutan and signed for former club Thimphu.

He made his first appearance back for the club on 2 July in the team's opening match against Thimphu City.