Prolific striker, Lionel Messi, wants to meet a young boy whose picture went viral recently. The young boy was wearing a homemade shirt fashioned from a plastic bag, as homage to his Messi, his idol. Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi worships the Argentinean football star, but a jersey of the Barcelona player is beyond the means of his poor family in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province. His older brother Homayoun, 15, made him the blue and white striped plastic “shirt” with Messi’s name written in marker pen and posted a photo of Murtaza wearing it on Facebook. Jorge Messi, Lionel’s father, told the AFP news agency that the footballer was aware of the photos and “wants to do something” for the boy. The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) also said Messi was keen to meet Murtaza as soon as possible, but nothing is set in stone. “Messi has been in communication with the Federation to set up a meeting with the young boy,” AFF spokesman Sayed Ali Kazemi told AFP. “We are working to see whether Messi will come to Afghanistan or the five-year-old will travel to Spain or they will meet in a third country.” There was no immediate comment from FC Barcelona. Setting up a meeting in Afghanistan, which is in the midst of a Taliban insurgency, would be fraught with security challenges. The Spanish embassy in Kabul told AFP it would do all it could to facilitate a meeting somewhere in Europe. Murtaza’s father, a poor farmer in the district of Jaghori, said he could not afford to buy a replica shirt, adding that his son only had a punctured ball to play with.
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