Barcelona star Lionel Messi meets his biggest fan, Afghan boy Murtaza Ahmadi, in Qatar.
Which football idol would you most want to meet? We all have one, and this week. In a meeting arranged by the organizing committee of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, Messi held hands with Murtaza at the team hotel before picking up the boy and posing for photographs. Murtaza was wearing a Barcelona jersey.
"I'm very happy to have met my hero. It is a dream for me," said Murtaza, in quotes supplied by the World Cup organizing committee.
Murtaza, who is now aged six, walked out onto the field with the five-time world player of the year before Tuesday's match.