Fans Furious as Messi’s Kolkata Visit Lasts Only Minutes. Fans were outraged by star footballer Lionel Messi‘s short stay at the Kolkata stadium during his visit to India.
Shocking beyond belief to see what’s happened at the Messi event in Kolkata’s Salt Lake Stadium. This is what happens when organisers try to swarm the star attraction with VIPs and friends. People who paid didn’t even catch a glimpse of Messi and just thank god the mess didn’t… pic.twitter.com/gAfcfx1WC6
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73) December 13, 2025
According to Indian media, footballer Lionel Messi stayed at the Kolkata stadium for only 10 to 20 minutes, which angered fans.
The fans, getting angry, vandalized the stadium and complained that Messi was surrounded by all the leaders and ministers and we could not see anything.
The fans also complained that Messi neither kicked a football nor did anything else, this was the worst event where Messi came for only 10 minutes.
The 2022 World Cup winner walked around the pitch at the stadium waving to the fans, but was closely surrounded by a large group of people and left 20 minutes after arrival.
According to the viral video showed fans throwing ripped-up stadium seats and other objects onto the field and the athletics track at the site, with several people who had climbed over a fence surrounding the playing field hurling objects.
Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, which, along with the states of Kerala and Goa, has long had large soccer followings in an otherwise cricket-crazed country.
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