Messi mania grips Kolkata as fans celebrate his 38th birthday with grand cake and cheers

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South Kolkata (WB), June 24 (ANI): Die-hearted Fans of football legend Lionel Messi celebrated his 38th birthday with great enthusiasm in Kolkata on June 24. Supporters gathered to cut a massive football-field-themed cake and exchanged pleasantries to mark the occasion. The celebration reflected Messi’s immense popularity in India’s football-loving eastern city, Kolkata. Messi, 38, will lead a quartet of former Barcelona players into a clash with their former coach Luis Enrique. Inter Miami will face European champions Paris St Germain in the last 16 of the Club World Cup in Atlanta on Sunday

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00:00FITIAS FOR ATTENDIDA!

00:13FITIAS FOR MESES!

00:16Muy bien.

00:21FITIAS FOR MESES!

00:34Well, today is a day that comes once every single year and we have been celebrating this

00:38man for a long time now.

00:40The Argentina Football Fan Club has started celebrating these Argentinian icons.

00:44It started from celebrating Maradona, now we are celebrating Lionel Messi.

00:48I think the whole objective of this celebration is to promote football amongst every single

00:53youngster out there who dreams to becoming a footballer, who watches Lionel Messi score

00:58from 30 meters outside of the goal.

01:01I think that is the dream.

01:03That is what the objective of this organization is.

01:07And we shall continue to celebrate this man every single year.

01:10And today we have gathered here all at the Argentina Football Fan Club, all us fans in Golgatha.

01:16And we are cutting this cake, this beautiful 5x3 cake in front of you.

01:19All the fans, everybody out here, we are going to continue to do this till the end of time

01:25and pass it on to our children and the future members of the Argentina Football Fan Club.

01:29What is the size of this cake?

01:38This is a very tasty cake.

01:40This is a very tasty cake.

01:41The taste just increases every single year.

01:44And this is a very creamy cake.

01:46As you can see it's a football ground.

01:48I mean the place where Lionel Messi was made.

01:51The home ground, the home of Lionel Messi's football.

01:54I mean the thing that we love about Lionel Messi the most is his game in this very pitch.

01:59That's what we have here.

02:00The most important and the most delicate and the most delicious memory right in front of us.

02:06We are going to continue to celebrate this man till the end of time

02:09because what he has given to us fans is something that is just priceless.

02:13How many years have you been celebrating?

02:17We have been celebrating Lionel Messi for over 20 years now and we are going to continue to do that.

02:21The main objective of all of this, doing all of this is to make sure that every single youngster out there

02:27who thinks that he wants to become a footballer should not be worried about it.

02:32He should be confident about it.

02:34When he watches Lionel Messi score from 30 yards away from the goal,

02:37I think he should be extremely confident about it that he can do that one day too for this country.

02:42I think that is the main objective of all of this.

02:44We have been loving football.

02:45We have been loving Messi-Maradona for a long time and we are going to continue to do that.

02:48So you were also watching Messi in Australia?

02:51Of course.

02:53I mean I had the opportunity of watching Lionel Messi play once in China.

02:58But my father had the opportunity to go to a lot of World Cups.

03:01He has watched Messi right in front of him.

03:03And he had the opportunity to watch Lionel Messi lift the World Cup.

03:07I think that memory is definitely priceless.

03:09I mean he has been putting all of his efforts in this organization,

03:12bringing everybody together.

03:13And watching Lionel Messi lift the World Cup after so much effort,

03:18I think it is extremely priceless.

03:20The dream for the offensive.

03:21Absolutely.

03:22It has been a great journey for us and we are loving it that we are here today.

03:26Lionel Messi has lifted the World Cup.

03:28The dream has come true.

03:29And hopefully he is going to lift the Club World Cup too.

03:32We all are going to see you guys there again.

03:34Next World Cup in 2026, what do you want to say on this Messi's match?

03:37If the way the Argentinian squad is working right now,

03:41I am pretty sure that the Argentinian squad is going to lift the upcoming World Cup too.

03:45Hopefully beating Ronaldo in the finals.

03:47What is the matter about Messi?

03:51He is a God to us.

03:53He is nothing less than a God to us.

03:56He is what we understand about football.

03:58When we think about football, it is Lionel Messi that comes to our mind.

04:01The way he plays on the pitch is absolutely extraordinary.

04:05The way he dribbles the ball, the way he kicks the ball,

04:08the way he plays football, he makes it seem that it is absolutely impossible.

04:12It is not possible by any other human being to play football like that.

04:17And I think that is what football to us is.

04:19And that is what Lionel Messi is asked to.

04:21Special day for everyone who supports Argentina and Inter Milan.

04:27And today is a very amazing day for Messi too.

04:32And we have made, like, we did a very special kick cutting.

04:36It has been happening for more than 20 years.

04:39And it's a very, like, it's type of, you know, it's, yeah, for us, like, our Argentinian fans.

04:52And I just want to say, I want to see Messi again win the World Cup.

04:58Because he won last, like, last World Cup.

05:01And I want him to continue.

05:03Like, I want him to do it three times straight, okay?

05:06I hope he again does it, like, after 2026.

05:11And I'm very happy that he has still not quitted football and still has his journey on it.

05:19What's your message about Messi and his help?

05:23Messi is God.

05:25Messi is everything for us.

05:28Messi is a very special person.

05:31He is God gifted.

05:33When he had that one injury that his height couldn't grow,

05:37nobody could play football after that.

05:41And he is such a person, he still continued.

05:45When he's, like, his grandmother always made him, like, always made him learn football.

05:53And his, somebody says that his name was Messi because he was very messy in the room, okay?

06:01And that's actually true.

06:03And, you know, when Messi plays the game, whenever, like, I feel that there has to be a goal.

06:12100, 200% chance.

06:14That's what I think of Messi.

06:16You want to see Messi on ground in 2026 in match, the final and World Cup.

06:21You want to go there and watch Messi?

06:23Yeah, yeah.

06:24That's, yeah, that's my dream.

06:26What's your dream?

06:27To go and watch World Cup 2026 and see Messi win the World Cup.

06:32Yeah.

06:33What's your name?

06:34Pratyusha Shah.

06:35Fan of?

06:36Yeah, fan of Argentina.

06:52S

07:06I don't have anything special. We started from 2007. In 2006, we had seen the All Cup, a German-Mexico match.

07:18In that time, we knew that there was one day that the world will go for Messi and play football.

07:25In 2007, we were growing up with Messi. We did it before.

07:32Now, we saw the world, who is Messi and who is?

07:36He is a genius, just a magician.

07:39Now, we will say that there are only two players in the club.

07:45Messi and one goal.

07:48The rest are 9 players.

07:51The rest are 3-3.

07:53There is no strength to anyone.

07:55The two players are playing the World Cup.

07:58It is a great start.

08:00We think that there is no one player.

08:03But Messi, we will say that their power, their strength.

08:10The two players are playing the European champion.

08:14The two players are playing the world.

08:17and the two players have been playing the beat as well.

08:28There are no One Beaster as well.

08:29As we or not, Messi did not know Oslo from the World Cup when another player would be playing.

08:35But we are lucky to see Messi as a player in the 29th match in the Meizan.

08:44We also watch it on TV.

08:46It's a game of 90 minutes.

08:48It's a hard time when Messi comes to the ball.

08:51So when Messi comes to the ball, he knows that he's watching the magic.

08:55He's a fan of Messi.

09:00Without a competitor.

09:02What do you want to say about the special stadium?

09:07What do you want to say about the special stadium?

09:09What do you want to say about the special A-design?

09:12Messi means football.

09:13Football means stadium.

09:14Football means stadium.

09:15It means a mountain.

09:16Messi means a mountain.

09:17I don't think any friends do this.

09:19That's why we do A-design.

09:21This year, the special A-design is going to be a club.

09:25We all are praying.

09:28Of course, if you see a team on the semi-final line,

09:31that will use the team for the semi-final line.

09:32That's when they enter Miami,

09:34the number one of them is going to be a star…

09:37Messi and someone who will win a team,

09:41winning both.

09:42We won the team.

09:43If any team will win a team,

09:44who will win a match and winning both,

09:45there is hope.

09:46That means we don't want to win.

09:47We'll want it.

09:48I think we'll all know.

09:49Everybody will win.

09:50We will also support each of them.

09:51Football then will win.

09:52The player, who will win a veteran,

09:53and will win.

09:54You are a big fan of Messi in Argentina.

09:59The biggest dream of Messi is to win the World Cup.

10:03What did you think of that day when you saw it in front of him?

10:08We were in the final of the four matches.

10:12In the two Copas and in the 22nd.

10:16We were in the World Cup.

10:19We were in the 3rd match.

10:23We were in the 6th match and the final at the 5th match.

10:27We were so afraid of that.

10:29And in the Chile the final at the 5th match, we were so upset.

10:32But in the 22nd.

10:35We were in the 21st match.

10:38We were in the lead.

10:41We were in the 3rd match.

10:44We were in the 3-1 match.

10:48We were in the 3rd match.

10:52I think the world is going to be in the pocket of football, and there is no shock for football, and we need it, no demand.

11:05It was a whole dream, I didn't get a dream in Brazil, I didn't get a dream in Qatar.

11:15I want to say, I want to say, I want to say, how long you die, I will be able to say, how long you die, I will be able to say.

11:29I am the founder of Argentine Football Fan Club.

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