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QUETTA, PAKISTAN - MAY 03: Murtaza Ahmedi, a five year old Afghan boy who wears a jersey signed by Messi, plays with a ball in Quetta of Balochistan province, a South-Western city in Pakistan on May 3, 2016. A boy from Ghazni province of Afghanistan became famous on social media in the world after wearing a plastic bag shirt resembling the uniform of international football star Lionel Messi. Messi had also expressed his wish to meet Murtaza Ahmedi. Parents of Murtaza Ahmedi moved him to Quetta from Afghanistan hence they worried about kidnapping, Mr. Wahid Ahmedi, a relative of the boy said. They also appealed to football federations and both Afghanistan and Pakistan government for making arrangements of meeting between Lionel Messi and Murtaza Ahmedi. (Photo by Mazhar Chandio/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

QUETTA, PAKISTAN - MAY 03:  Murtaza Ahmedi, a five year old Afghan boy who wears a jersey signed by Messi, plays with a ball in Quetta of Balochistan province, a South-Western city in Pakistan on May 3, 2016. A boy from Ghazni province of Afghanistan became famous on social media in the world after wearing a plastic bag shirt resembling  the uniform of international football star Lionel Messi. Messi had also expressed his wish to meet Murtaza Ahmedi. Parents of Murtaza Ahmedi moved him to Quetta from Afghanistan hence they worried about kidnapping, Mr. Wahid Ahmedi, a relative of the boy said. They also appealed to football federations and both Afghanistan and Pakistan government for making arrangements of meeting between Lionel Messi and Murtaza Ahmedi. (Photo by Mazhar Chandio/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)