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New Delhi: The RGI Cricket Stadium in the city of Hyderabad is all read to witness football legend Lionel Messi's 'Penalty Shootout,' when his team will take on Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy-led squad in a friendly contest on Saturday evening.
As per Parvathi Reddy, who is the advisor to the GOAT Tour Hyderabad, there will be a friendly contest between the two teams - Singareni RR9 and Aparna-Messi All Stars. Both the teams would be playing a friendly match for 15 to 20 minutes and five minutes before the match, Revanth Reddy, a football enthusiast and Messi will join and dribble the ball together which will surely catch the attention of all the fans.
'There will be penalty shoots to decide who is the winning team. Each team gets a 3-3 penalty shootout so that they will decide who is the winning team. Messi will be doing it separately on his own. His magic kick will be done to showcase it to everybody,' Reddy told news agency PTI.
She said that about 60 people have paid Rs 10 lakh to get a picture with Messi and the amount this collected will straight away go to the Football Clinic aiming to provide opportunity to some young players to learn from big names in the sport.
Additionally, a source close to the event said that about 27000 tickets have been sold so far and the organizers are excepting a full house of 39000 spectators at the time when the football superstar arrives on Saturday evening.
After the match gets over, there is a football clinic for about 25 to 30 minutes in which 20 children will be coached by Messi, Rodrigo (De Paul) and Luis Suarez, she confirmed. Messi will be landing in the city at 4 PM on Saturday and will leave from Mumbai on Sunday morning. Meanwhile elaborate security arrangements are being made for the event at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium.
