Watch | Messi surprises Afghan fan with signed T-shirt
Updated on Feb 26, 2016 07:36 pm IST
Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi received signed Barcelona and Argentina shirts from soccer star Lionel Messi, after the Afghan boy went viral on social media wearing a home-made Argentina shirt made from a plastic bag with a No. 10 on the back.
Murtaza posed for photographs wearing the shirts and playing with a signed football which also sent by Messi. The gifts were delivered to him by UNICEF.
The Afghan Football Federation is trying to set up a meeting between Messi and the boy.
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