The six-year-old boy’s dream of meeting his hero, Messi, has finally come true.
Murtaza Ahmadi gained online fame after a picture of him wearing a makeshift Lionel Messi jersey went viral.
“I love Messi and football. I will meet him one day,” the six-year-old said.
“I want to become like him (Messi),” added Ahmadi, who lives in the Jaghori district in the Afghan province of Ghazni.
Murtaza’s brother Homayoun was the one who made the improvised shirt – that perfectly fit the little boy – and scribbled Messi’s name and the No.10 in it.
“Murtaza found a plastic bag and ran towards me asking me to make a jersey out of it for him,” 15-year-old Homayoun
“We can’t even imagine buying the original Messi jersey. We just can’t afford it so, to make my brother happy, I made a shirt out of that plastic bag for him.”
