PM Modi and Lionel Messi meeting called off; Full details inside

Football legend Lionel Messi will not be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his New Delhi stop as part of the GOAT India Tour on Monday.

Post Published By: Sujata Biswal

Updated : 15 December 2025, 12:36 PM IST

PM Modi and Lionel Messi meeting called off

New Delhi: Football icon Lionel Messi will not be meeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his New Delhi stop as part of the GOAT India Tour on Monday.

Messi was scheduled to meet PM Modi but that was cancelled late on the day before the meeting.

PM Modi has embarked on a tour to Oman, Ethiopia and Jordan on a four-day visit to strenthen the bilateral ties between India and the three Nations.

The Prime Minister took to social media X before leaving India and said,

Today, I will be in Jordan at the invitation of His Majesty King Abdullah II. This visit comes at a time when we mark 75 years of diplomatic relations between our nations. I will be holding talks with His Majesty and Prime Minister Jafar Hassan. I also look forward to interacting…

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 15, 2025

“Today, I am embarking on a three-nation visit to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Sultanate of Oman, three nations with which India shares both age-old civilizational ties, as well as extensive contemporary bilateral relations,” wrote PM Modi.

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