{"id":83550,"date":"2016-12-13T07:39:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/messi-meets-his-young-afghan-admirer\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:39:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:39:28","slug":"messi-meets-his-young-afghan-admirer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/messi-meets-his-young-afghan-admirer\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi meets his young Afghan admirer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/13 Dec\/messi.JPG\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DOHA (SW): The Afghan boy, whose home-made plastic Messi shirt went viral on social media, finally met his favourite football star on Tuesday<span dir=\"RTL\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Murtaza Ahmadi had earlier received a signed shirt from the Argentine football star but now his dream came true in Doha when he met Messi. Barcelona club was visiting Qatar to play a friendly against Saudi club Al Ahli. Qatar is also set to conclude its four-year long sponsorship of Barcelona club.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadi, who comes from the Ghazni province of Afghanistan, became an internet sensation when photos of him while wearing a plastic shirt with Messi&rsquo;s name got viral on the social media earlier this year. The Argentine superstar sent him a signed jersey in February and expressed his desire to meet the young fan.<\/p>\n<p>The Barcelona attacker was all smiles when he saw Murtaza. Messi picked him up to pose for photographs.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA (SW): The Afghan boy, whose home-made plastic Messi shirt went viral on social media, finally met his favorite football star on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}