{"id":75609,"date":"2025-12-13T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/13\/lionel-messi-india-tour-chaos-angry-fans-seats-pitch-kolkata"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T09:00:54","slug":"lionel-messis-india-tour-starts-in-chaos-as-angry-fans-throw-seats-in-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75609","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi\u2019s India tour starts in chaos as angry fans throw seats in stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Argentinian makes 20-minute appearance in Kolkata<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Supporters climb fence and hurl objects from stands<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lionel Messi\u2019s tour of India kicked off on a chaotic note on Saturday as fans ripped up seats and threw them towards the pitch after the Argentina and Inter Miami forward\u2019s brief visit to the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, the ANI news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Messi is in India as part of a tour during which he is scheduled to attend concerts, youth football clinics and a padel tournament, and launch charitable initiatives at events in Kolkata, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/dec\/13\/lionel-messi-india-tour-chaos-angry-fans-seats-pitch-kolkata\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentinian makes 20-minute appearance in KolkataSupporters climb fence and hurl objects from standsLionel Messi\u2019s tour of India kicked off on a chaotic note on Saturday as fans ripped up seats and threw them towards the pitch after the Argentina and I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[627,62,3464,61,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-india","category-lionel-messi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75610,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75609\/revisions\/75610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}