Dreams do come true: Messi gifts autographed jerseys to Afghan boy pictured wearing plastic bag

[caption id=“attachment_2643698” align=“alignnone” width=“940”]  A picture can tell 1000 words. The image if little Murtaza touched a chord with football fans around the world, and earned him the sobriquet “little Messi” on social media. And now he has not one, but two jerseys signed by Messi himself. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2643706” align=“alignnone” width=“940”]  “Little Messi” wasted no time in testing out his left foot in his Messi jersey. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2643704” align=“alignnone” width=“940”]  Purchasing a Messi jersey was beyond the means of Murtaza’s poor family, members of the persecuted ethnic Hazara minority living in volatile Ghazni, near Kabul. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2643702” align=“alignnone” width=“940”]  And to think he was playing in this plastic bag-cum-jersey a few days back. Social media is so brilliant some times. AFP[/caption] [caption id=“attachment_2643700” align=“alignnone” width=“940”]  “Murtaza couldn’t stop smiling. He kept repeating: I love Messi,” UNICEF Afghanistan spokesman Denise Shepherd-Johnson told AFP. Image: AFP[/caption]