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Lionel Messi arrives in Kolkata on December 13 for the GOAT Tour 2025, meeting Sourav Ganguly and Mamata Banerjee, unveiling a 70-foot statue.
Lionel Messi. (AP Photo)
Football icon Lionel Messi is set to arrive in India on December 13 for the much-anticipated GOAT Tour 2025, a three-day event spanning four major Indian cities: Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai, and New Delhi, from December 13 to 15.
Messi, travelling from Miami, is scheduled to land in Kolkata around 1:30 am. He has a busy day planned in the city, starting with meetings at 9:30 am. The World Cup-winning captain will attend multiple interactions and events before departing for Hyderabad at 2 pm. During his visit to Kolkata, Messi will also meet former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Messi’s Kolkata Schedule –
Lionel Messi will arrive in Kolkata around midnight on Friday. On Saturday morning at 9:30, he will attend a meet-and-greet event at his hotel, where he may also remotely inaugurate his 70-foot statue. At 10 a.m., he will visit Salt Lake Stadium, where Shah Rukh Khan, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and Sourav Ganguly are expected to join him. The programme will feature a musical performance followed by a celebrity match. After that, Messi will participate in a football clinic. He is scheduled to leave Kolkata by 2 p.m. on Saturday.
- Lionel Messi will land in Kolkata around midnight on Friday.
- A meet-and-greet is scheduled at his hotel at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
- He may virtually inaugurate his 70-foot statue during this event.
- Messi will visit Salt Lake Stadium at 10 a.m. on Saturday.
- Shah Rukh Khan, Mamata Banerjee, and Sourav Ganguly are expected to attend.
- The programme will feature a musical performance, followed by a celebrity match.
- Messi will then join a football clinic.
- He is scheduled to depart Kolkata by 2 p.m. on Saturday.
The 70-foot iron statue of football legend Lionel Messi, claimed to be the largest ever made of the Argentine superstar, has been completed by the Sree Bhumi Sporting Club in Lake Town, South Dum Dum, Kolkata.
After Kolkata, Messi will travel to Hyderabad, Mumbai and then to Delhi. The GOAT India Tour 2025 is designed as a pan-India celebration, starting in the East (Kolkata) and South (Hyderabad) on December 13, continuing to the West (Mumbai) on December 14, and concluding in the North (Delhi) on December 15.
(With inputs from Kamalika Sengupta)
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December 11, 2025, 20:11 IST
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