Sports entrepreneur Shatadru Dutta, the key man behind Lionel Messi’s second visit to Kolkata on December 13, has planned a ‘surprise’ for Messi. As a result, Kolkata’s football fans may see even more excitement, as world football superstars Neymar of Brazil and Jordi Alba of Spain might join Messi at the Yuba Bharati Krirangan on the afternoon of December 13.
Discussions are ongoing to bring Neymar and Suarez to Kolkata on December 13 for what could become a Barcelona reunion. At present, Messi is unaware of these plans.
If Neymar and Suarez attend on December 13, it will reunite Messi, Neymar, and Suarez, who played together at Barcelona in La Liga from 2014, when Suarez joined from Liverpool, until 2017, when Neymar left for Paris Saint-Germain.
If the arrival of Brazil’s Neymar and Uruguay’s all-time leading goal-scorer Suarez materialises, it will only be for the Calcutta leg of Messi’s India visit.
fter his set of events in Calcutta, Messi will move on to Wankhede and the Kotla for more programmes on December 14 and 15, in Mumbai and Delhi, respectively. In New Delhi, the organisers will also try to have India Test and ODI captain Shubman Gill on the same stage as Messi.
