Indian authorities have deployed an operation of 4,000 police officers and imposed a strict schedule to secure Lionel Messi's visit to the city of Hyderabad this Saturday, in response to the riots that forced the player's evacuation hours earlier in eastern Kolkata.

Police in the southern city have issued a warning in statements to the media that they will take "severe action" against any misconduct by fans, to prevent a repeat of the scenes of violence that marred the first stage of the "GOAT India Tour" in Kolkata and ended with the arrest of the main organizer.

Regional Police Commissioner G. Sudheer Babu assured that a multi-layered security perimeter has been established around the Uppal stadium and that the entire area has been barricaded to ensure that the Argentine star and his companions, Luis Suarez and Rodrigo De Paul, are not at risk.

To To counter the uncertainty that sparked anger among fans in West Bengal, authorities in Hyderabad have published a minute-by-minute schedule outlining every move of the event, from kickoff at 7:50 p.m. to the dignitaries' departure at 9:00 p.m. National opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and the state's Chief Minister, A. Revanth Reddy, will escort the footballers during the scheduled activities, which include a penalty shootout and clinics with children, acting as institutional guarantors of order. The security deployment aims to salvage the image of the international tour after police had to charge a crowd in Kolkata and the regional government apologized for what it called mismanagement by the organizers. Messi's appearance in Kolkata lasted just 22 minutes and was cut short by bottles and chairs thrown by thousands of fans shouting "scam" at the event's brevity. which led to police charges and the arrest of the organizer.