Team India skipper MS Dhoni, a keen soccer enthusiast and a Manchester United fan,u00a0took to the field as a footballer on Friday andu00a0enthralled fans. Dhoni, who smashed a 19-ball 63 in his IPL team Chennai Super Kings&#39; win over Surisers Hyderabad in the Champions League Twenty20 on Thursday, played a 35-minute friendly football match at former Jharkhand deputy chief minister Sudesh Mahto&#39;s assembly constituency, Silli, about 55 kms from Ranchi.u00a0 Dhoni, who was a goal keeper during his school days, plays football regularly even now as warm-up ahead of key cricket matches. <img alt="MS Dhoni " src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/sep/Dhoni-football.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 652px;" /> MS Dhoni is a footballu00a0enthusiast and a Manchester United fan. File Pic/AFP Dhoni, who clobbered five sixes in Sri Lankan&#39;s all-rounder Thisara Perera&#39;s over at the JSCA stadium on Thursday, teamed up with Mahto to play against a local soccer academy team at the Silli stadium. Talking to a news agency, Mahto said Dhoni&#39;s fans at Silli now want him to go for six sixes in an over. &quot;Fans urged him to hit six sixes in one over. And Dhoni said intejar karna padega (have to wait),&quot; AJSU president Mahto said quoting Dhoni. Dhoni, who is the football ambassador for English Premier League,u00a0and Mahto scored a goal each as their team swept past their young rivals 4-1 in the friendly tie before a capacity crowd.

A day after his heroics on the cricket field in his hometown, India and CSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni displayed his footballing skills as he scored a goal during a friendly match on Friday.

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