Afghan boy five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, a young Lionel Messi fan, plays football as he wears a donated and signed shirt by Messi on a field in Kabul on Friday. AFP PHOTO
Afghan boy five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, a young Lionel Messi fan, plays football as he wears a donated and signed shirt by Messi on a field in Kabul on Friday. AFP PHOTO

KABUL: Argentine football star Lionel Messi has sent not one, but two jerseys to the five-year-old Afghan boy who became an Internet sensation last month when he was pictured wearing a plastic bag with “Messi” scrawled on it in marker pen.

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