India, Dec. 13 -- For Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, it was a fanboy moment as he met Argentinian football legend Lionel Messi in Telangana's Hyderabad during his GOAT India Tour 2025, which began on Saturday with the first stop in West Bengal's Kolkata.

After the Kolkata Messi event ended on a chaotic note, Messi arrived in Hyderabad on Saturday evening where he was welcomed by Telangana chief minister Revanth Reddy.

Rahul Gandhi shared a reel of him with the G.O.A.T (Greatest of All Times) Messi and his Inter Miami team-mates Luiz Saurez and Rodrigo de Paul on his social media handles such as Facebook and Instagram and captioned it: "Viva Football With the GOAT @leomessi." The Congress leader landed in Hyderabad on Saturday afternoon f...