Lionel Messi’s Kolkata visit turned chaotic at Salt Lake Stadium as poor crowd management left fans frustrated. Bottles were hurled, seats vandalised and organisers criticised, overshadowing the Argentine star’s brief appearance during his GOAT Tour in India

New Delhi: Kolkata knows how to worship footballing gods. On Saturday afternoon, that devotion turned into disillusionment as Lionel Messi’s much-anticipated appearance ended not in applause, but in anger and chaos at the Salt Lake Stadium.

The city’s long-awaited tryst with the Argentine icon quickly unravelled when Messi, in India as part of his GOAT Tour, was forced to cut short his lap of honour at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan following an uncontrollable surge in the crowd. Frustration boiled over, bottles were thrown,

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