Murtaza Ahmadi is an Afghan boy who is unwilling in 2016, when he was five years old, his image turned the world upside down. His older brother posted a photo of him on Facebook in which little Murtaza was wearing a shirt of his idol Lionel Messi, but It was not an ordinary shirt, it was an improvisation made with a plastic bag with the name Messi and the number 10 written with a marker. From there his life turned into hell.
According to the Bleacher Report, Murtaza Ahmadi’s life, now in a new year, took a 180 degree turn after that photo’s publication, months later Messi was able to find him and invited him to meet him, the meeting took place in Qatar, Murtaza traveled in the company of his father to meet Messi in a friendly for Barcelona.
The images of the meeting went viral again, it was the realization of a dream, Murtaza accompanied his idol on the field and for a long time did not want to divorce him. Then he had to go home with nothing but memories, but nothing was the same from there his family received threats from the Taliban.
“Militants in the region called out and said,”You have become rich, pay the money Messi gave you or we will take your sonInsured his mother Shafiqa in 2018.
After meeting with Messi the Ahmadi family believed they would receive some form of financial support or perhaps the opportunity to migrate and become refugees in Europe, as did CR7, who helped a Syrian child find shelter in Spain for him and his family during his time at Real Madrid, but little Murtaza did not even receive “a single rupee,” says his mother.
“When we went to Doha to meet Messi we thought he would be like Ronaldo, we thought he could do something, not for me, but for Murtaza, who is his big fan he did nothing for Murtaza, compared to what Ronaldo could have doneExplained Arif Ahmadi, father of one child.
After receiving multiple threats, The family decided to remove Murtaza from his province of origin and take him to the Afghan capital of Kabul, far from his home, to live with his uncles, There, little Murtaza changed the freedom of the field, where he went to play football, for a closed city environment, where he suffered from not being able to make friends and staying away from his parents and brother. To top it all off, Kabul is a very unsafe city that is regularly ravaged by terrorist attacks.
They don’t feel safe even in the capital. They fear the Taliban will try to capture Murtaza because of the fame his meeting with Messi brought him. They claim extremists are looking for him. “They said if they get him, they’ll break it to pieces”, the horrified mother Shafiqa reports, according to the newspaper El País.
This uncertainty prompted his parents to make the decision to return Murtaza to their home, where he currently lives at the age of 9, and despite the forgetfulness and disappointment his family feels for the Argentinian star, Murtaza still admits to be a great admirer of Leo Messi.
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