India, Dec. 15 -- Lionel Messi's Kolkata visit as part of his G.O.A.T India tour ended in chaos amid mismanagement claims. Despite buying expensive tickets, thousands of fans failed to catch a glimpse of La Pulga at the Salt Lake Stadium. Messi's abrupt departure led several attendees to vandalise and even steal the stadium's property.

A Messi fan, who introduced himself as a resident of West Bengal's Cooch Behar, took flower pots from the outside of Salt Lake Stadium on his way home. "I will gift them to my wife," he told Bangla Hunt. He said he was upset that he could not see Lionel Messi.

Aroop Biswas, West Bengal's sports minister from the Trinamool Congress, accompanied Lionel Messi the whole time he was at the venue. The Messi fan...