What Lionel Messi’s GOAT Tour Reveals About Grassroots Failure and Governance Issues. The tour of Lionel Messi, however, has been bringing not only excitement and money, but also the directing of long ...

Messi's GOAT tour may rake in $20 million - but there are zero takers for India's domestic football, with the 2025/26 ISL season yet to begin.

Lionel Messi is visiting four cities in India with a friendly match of football match scheduled at all grounds. However, the ...

Indian footballer Sandesh Jhingan reflects on Lionel Messi’s India tour, fan frenzy and the uneasy contrast with Indian football’s fragile and uncertain present ...

Lionel Messi arrived at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad to a roaring reception from the crowd and was ...

Sandesh Jhingan, captain of the Indian men's football team, criticised the significant expenditure on Lionel Messi's tour to ...

But once the excitement settled, Indian football was left facing reality again. The love for the game was never in doubt, but what remained missing was progress.

The football icon didn’t kick the ball in a game or speak about football issues. But for the Indian fans, Messi turning up was enough ...