Messi, Kolkata
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Lionel Messi's GOAT India Tour at Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium turned messy after spectators couldn't catch a glimpse of the football star. Several videos from the event continue to surface online.
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Mumbai's message to Kolkata: Messi-merising evening with real GOAT crowd
The city of Mumbai turned up in numbers to get a glimpse of Lionel Messi at the Wankhede Stadium. The event went smoothly, and produced several memorable moments, prompting the Maharashtra CM to tweet that Mumbai has the GOAT fans.
Messi’s Kolkata event sparked chaos — and a viral joke that Farah Khan would’ve managed it better stole the spotlight.
BJP leader Kalyan Chaubey said the immediate impact was borne by fans who had spent large sums to attend the Lionel Messi event, but warned that the long-term consequences could be far more damaging a
It’s the day after the Lionel Messi fiasco at the Salt Lake Stadium – with Mumbai hosting a seamless third leg of the GOAT Tour of India after Hyderabad last evening. The greatest irony of it all is that the Salt Lake Stadium, the largest football stadium of the country with even a truncated capacity of 65,000, lies in darkness and in ruins.
Amid chaos at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium following Lionel Messi’s early exit, a man was seen carrying away flower pots, saying he would “gift them to his wife.” The video surfaced after widespread unrest and fan disappointment during the ‘GOAT Tour 2025’ event.
Kolkata's electoral rolls are set for significant deletions, with Jorasanko and Chowringhee constituencies facing the highest voter attrition. Over 58
A kidney-speciality hospital in Kolkata's Salt Lake chose an active way to celebrate its fourth year of service by hosting a public walkathon on Sunday morning. The event, themed 'A Walk for Your Kidney',
Satadru Dutta – the chief organiser of GOAT India Tour 2025 – who widely promoted the event as 'a Satadru Dutta initiative,' – found himself at the centre of attention on Sunday after scenes of chaos