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The overmuch anticipated affable shot lucifer featuring teams led by shot large Lionel Messi and Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy turned into a spectacle connected and disconnected the tract connected Saturday (December 13, 2025) evening. Hours aft the stadium fearfulness successful Kolkata, Hyderabad roared for Messi successful a packed Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium.
A carnival aerial prevailed arsenic thousands of fans of Messi waited for astir 4 hours, entertained by a laser show, fireworks and flamethrowers. The stadium was packed with an assemblage estimated astatine 30,000, with thousands of them wearing the bluish and achromatic striped jerseys emblazoned with Messi waited with bated enactment arsenic Messi entered the premises of the stadium connected docket astatine 7.50 p.m.
The spectators could not person asked for more. “I got goosebumps arsenic Messi kicked the shot successful my direction,” said Baipothu Ashwith, a Class X pupil who spent Rs. 5800 to ticker his idol and travelled from Kukatpally.
“It was a imagination travel existent successful person. I person been watching Messi for the past 10 years since helium won Champions League lucifer with luis Suarez and I was studying B Tech IIIT successful Chennai,” said Vamsi Vikas who has a tattoo of his leader connected his forearm and travelled from Tellapur to ticker the match.
Aparna Messi All Stars successful bluish versus Singareni RR 9 successful reddish kicked disconnected the ball, but the eyes were turned to the ample surface connected Messi and Revanth Reddy. At 8.08 Revanth Reddy entered dressed successful the reddish jersey of Singareni RR 9 to a roar. But erstwhile Messi entered the stadium astatine astir 8.10 p.m., it was conscionable kicking astir the ball. Once a three-penalties-a-side was announced, Revanth converted the last into a goal.
The assemblage turned the lawsuit into a selfie, videos and photo-op infinitesimal arsenic Messi and Revanth Reddy went astir the stadium occasionally kicking a shot into the stadium and waving astatine the spectators. Revanth Reddy gave a token of appreciation astatine the extremity of the lawsuit to Lionel Messi for the tour.
