When ISIS kidnapped 'Messi'
ISIS kept the three-year-old Iraqi boy as hostage for nearly two years
(Web Desk) - Islamic State had reportedly arrested a three-year-old boy named ‘Messi’ who belonged to Iraq. The boy was named Messi by his father after the Argentinean Footballer Lionel Messi.
ISIS kept the three-year-old boy as hostage for nearly two years. According to reports, the terrorists had arrested the little boy because his father named him Messi.
ISIS kidnapped a three-year-old Iraqi boy and kept him hostage for two years because he was named after Lionel Messi ( via @K24English) pic.twitter.com/jew54vWYNo
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IS members had warned his father to change the ‘infidel’ to Hassan before kidnapping the boy along with his mother and sister during 2014. He was rescued later on and lives in a refugee camp now situated in Iraq.
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The superstar footballer who plays from FC Barcelona has an immense international following. Last year, a six-year old boy named Murtaza Ahmadi belonging from Afghanistan met his hero Messi in Qatar. The Afghan boy received a specially signed shirt from him.
He became popular through a viral video in which he was seen wearing a shopping bag with Argentina s blue and white stripes along with Messi s name and No 10 on the back, written in black marker pen. He was thus recognized as the biggest fan of the football star.
VIDEO: Afghan boy meets Messi
