{"id":4640,"date":"2016-12-14T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2016-12-14T12:36:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T12:36:59","slug":"messi-meets-afghan-boy-famed-for-plastic-bag-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2016\/12\/14\/messi-meets-afghan-boy-famed-for-plastic-bag-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi meets Afghan boy famed for plastic bag shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old Afghan boy, who shot to Internet fame this year by sporting a Lionel Messi shirt made out of a plastic bag, fulfilled his dreams on Tuesday by meeting the Argentine soccer great.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Murtaza Ahmadi, from Ghazni province in rural eastern Afghanistan, accompanied Messi on to the field in Qatar before a friendly match between Barcelona and Saudi Arabia`s Al-Ahli in Doha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Murtaza also joined the Barcelona team photograph and placed the ball on the centre circle before running back to Messi`s side, with the referee having to take the grinning boy from the field.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Murtaza`s picture went viral in January when his family, lacking the money to buy the Argentina shirt he wanted, fashioned a shirt for him from a blue and white plastic bag with &#8220;Messi 10&#8221; scrawled on the back.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February, he received Argentina and Barcelona shirts in a package, along with a ball, from five-times world player of the year Messi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old Afghan boy, who shot to Internet fame this year by sporting a Lionel Messi shirt made out of a plastic bag, fulfilled his dreams on Tuesday by meeting the Argentine soccer great. &nbsp; Murtaza Ahmadi, from Ghazni province in rural eastern Afghanistan, accompanied Messi on to the field in Qatar before a friendly match between Barcelona and Saudi Arabia`s Al-Ahli in Doha. &nbsp; Murtaza also joined the Barcelona team photograph and placed the ball on the centre circle before running back to Messi`s side, with the referee having<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4642,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4640\/revisions\/4642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}