Lionel Messi GOAT India Tour, Day 1 LIVE: Reigning World Champion Lights Up City Of Joy With His Arrival

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: A few die-hard fans booked rooms in the same hotel where Lionel Messi is staying and they wanted to have a glimpse of the legendary footballer. Someone from Messi's team had to ask his fans top go back to their rooms as he was tired and wanted to rest.

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Lionel Messi will unveil his 70-foot statue installed at the Sreebhumi Sporting Club in Lake Town virtually in the first phase of his tour

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Sunil Chhetri will meet Messi in Mumbai, on December 14 in Mumbai

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: In a video which is now going Viral, a young Indian fan speaks about how she cancelled her honeymoon plans to watch the football icon from close corners

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: The fans have started to arrive at the Salt Lake Stadium. The Argentina captain is scheduled to arrive in the stadium at 10:30 AM, but his fans have started to flock the stadium with more than two hours to go for the event

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Kolkata hasn't left any stone unturned to welcome the Greatest Of All Time. A 70-ft-tall statue has been installed in Kolkata. The Messi statue also holds the World Cup in his hands.

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Lionel Messi and Rodrigo de Paul received grand welcome as he reached his hotel in Kolkata. Messi's day in Kolkata is just getting started and the fans are stupefied with his presence in their city
 

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: A replica of Messi's Miami home has been built in Salt Lake which includes terrace statues, terracotta-tiled roofs and life-sized cutouts of the star player and his family.

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: The world champion was greeted by thousand of fans at the main gate of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Amid all the fanfare around Lionel Messi, a fan rooted for the authorities to revive the ISL and save Indian football

Goat India Tour Live Updates 2025: Here's Messi's schedule for his Kolkata Trip

9:30 AM-10:30 AM: Meet-and-greet 
10:30 AM-11:15 AM: Virtual inauguration of the Messi statue
11:15 AM-11:25 AM: Arrival at the Salt Lake Stadium
12:00 PM: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Sourav Ganguly arrive at the Salt Lake Stadium
12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Friendly match, felicitation and interaction
2:00 PM: Departure for Hyderabad