It was 2016 and a photo that moved the world went viral. It was that of the Afghan child Murtaza Ahmadi, who was 5 at the time, portrayed playing football wearing a plastic bag transformed into Lionel Messi’s # 10 Argentina shirt.
Murtaza, the Afghan child meets Messi and doesn’t want to leave him anymore
The image also excited the then Barcelona champion, who wanted to meet him, a wish made thanks to Unicef and some sponsors, and gave him an official Albiceleste suit with autograph and personalized dedication. Then, he welcomed him on the pitch on the occasion of a friendly against Barcelona.
Today Murtaza returns to ask his idol for help, while in these five years many things have changed for both. La Pulce is no longer at Barcelona. Play in the PSG with the jersey n.30. Murtaza Ahmadi, on the other hand, is living nightmare hours in Kabul and launches an appeal to Messi: “I am trapped in the house and I cannot go out – his words to Efe then spread by various other media – because I am very afraid of the Taliban. Please save me. from this situation. I want to play football and do it in peace, in a safe place. Sometimes at night I dream that the Taliban are coming, they knock on the door and yell at me “.
Afghanistan, Murtaza’s dream of meeting Lionel Messi comes true
Murtaza and his family, Shiite Muslims, have been in Kabul for two months, coming from the province of Ghazni; they had to quickly leave their home (where the memorabilia donated by Messi remained) due to the advance of the Taliban. For the threats received several times, in the last two years they had avoided sending their son to school, fearing a possible kidnapping since the jihadists believed that Messi had also made a large donation of money to the child’s family.
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