







The City of Nizams well and truly showed how to pull off an event of this magnitude. The 2022 World Cup winning Argentine mesmerised the Hyderabad crowd at a nearly-packed Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal as he showed off some of the skills that made him one of the greatest ever to play the sport. Him, alongside Rodrigo De Paul and Luis Suarez, kicked a couple of balls to the crowd inside the stadium. Messi arrived in the city around 5:45 PM after a chaotic opening leg of his three-day four-city GOAT Tour 2025 in Kolkata. He was received at the Taj Falaknuma Palace by Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy. Watch some of the best pictures.









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