Images of five-year-old Afghan boy Murtaza Ahmadi playing at the Afghan Football Federation headquarters in Kabul. Photographs of Murtaza in a makeshift Lionel Messi shirt, fashioned out of a plastic bag, went viral on the internet and now the youngster is set to meet his hero.
Lionel Messi’s biggest little fan kicks it around at Afghanistan federation HQ – in pictures
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