Inter Miami ahead and international soccer celebrity Lionel Messi might be in Mumbai on Sunday for Day 2 of the “GOAT India Tour” 2025, following his appearances in Kolkata and Hyderabad on Saturday. The 38-year-old is anticipated to reach on the Wankhede Stadium shortly after 5.35 pm, with a full home set to get a once-in-a-lifetime alternative to see the worldwide icon reside.
The gates are anticipated to open at round 1:15 pm and organisers have deliberate an extended build-up aimed toward preserving followers engaged by way of music and on-field leisure. An area DJ will lead the early programming, adopted by a efficiency from DJ Chetas on the sector of play stage, because the stadium progressively fills up forward of Messi’s arrival. The on-field programme will collect momentum within the night with an All Stars 7v7 soccer match, performed throughout two pitches between 5.01 pm and 5.34 pm.
Quickly after the winners are introduced, Messi is anticipated to enter the stadium at round 5.37 pm. Following his arrival, Messi is scheduled to participate in a photograph alternative with celebrities on the pitch, throughout which he may even take penalty kicks.
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Later, Messi is scheduled to take a lap of the bottom earlier than shifting to the sector of play stage, the place he might be joined by Indian soccer icon Sunil Chhetri and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar for a football-and-cricket bat alternate, shortly earlier than 6:40 pm. Amongst different distinguished names anticipated on the Mumbai leg other than Tendulkar are John Abraham, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Jackie Shroff.
The stage proceedings may even embrace Messi being felicitated by dignitaries, together with representatives of the Mumbai Cricket Affiliation, as a part of the formal programme. Messi is anticipated to current the trophy to the successful All Stars crew earlier than being invited to say a number of phrases to the viewers, bringing the on-field proceedings to an in depth shortly after 7 pm.
GOAT Soccer Clinic
A key spotlight of Messi’s Mumbai go to might be his participation within the ‘GOAT Soccer Clinic,’ the place he’ll work together with 60 youngsters – 30 boys and 30 ladies – as a part of the Maharashtra authorities’s Undertaking Mahadeva initiative. The session is anticipated to final half-hour, between 5.56 pm and 6.26 pm, with quarter-hour allotted to each teams. Undertaking Mahadeva is the Maharashtra authorities’s flagship grassroots soccer initiative, aimed toward figuring out and nurturing younger expertise at an early age.
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The chosen youngsters are enrolled in a five-year full scholarship programme that gives skilled teaching, educational help, tools, residential amenities when required, efficiency monitoring, diet, physiotherapy, and psychological conditioning. Messi is anticipated at hand over a scholarship certificates to a gaggle of six youngsters at round 6:45 pm.
For a lot of within the stands, Sunday gives a uncommon alternative to observe Messi up shut, whereas for the younger gamers concerned, it marks a second that would form their footballing journeys lengthy after the tour strikes on. The Argentine will journey to Delhi on Monday for the ultimate leg of the tour, the place he’s anticipated to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi.