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It was an image that touched the hearts of millions: A 5-year-old Afghan boy wearing an improvised Lionel Messi jersey made from a plastic bag.Now, nearly a year later, Murtaza Ahmadi has finally met his idol.Murtaza made a special trip from Afghanistan to Qatar, where Messi was with his Barcelona teammates to play a friendly match against Al Ahli on Tuesday.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.Im 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 6, will walk out onto the field with the five-time world player of the year before Tuesdays match.The boy became an internet sensation early this year when pictures of him playing near his home in eastern Ghazni province were widely circulated. They showed him wearing a plastic bag -- in blue-and-white stripes, like the Argentina national team jersey -- with Messi and the No. 10 written in black marker.A few weeks later, Messi sent signed Barcelona and Argentina jerseys to Murtaza.Murtazas father, Mohammad Arif Ahmadi, said in May that the family was forced to leave Afghanistan amid constant telephone threats and fears that Murtaza would be kidnapped because of his sudden notoriety.Life became a misery for us, said the father at the time, speaking to The Associated Press over the telephone from the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the family had settled.The meeting between Messi and Murtaza comes at a time when Qatar is introducing long-expected reforms to policies governing its vast foreign-labor force, who labor and human rights activists say are open to abuse by the current system.Qatar says it is abolishing the kafala sponsorship system that binds workers to their employer. Rights groups say the changes fall far short of what is needed to protect the multitudes of mostly Asian low-wage workers transforming the tiny country.---This story has been corrected to show that Murtaza Ahmadi was 5 years old, not 6, when the original photo was taken. Air Max 97 Ultra Sconti . Marincin has played in two NHL games so far this season with two penalty minutes. The 21-year-old has three goals, four assists and a plus-5 rating in 24 games with the American Hockey Leagues Oklahoma City Barons this season. Scarpe Off White Air Max 97 . -- New England Revolution goalkeeper Matt Reis is retiring after a 16-year career to become the goalie coach for the Los Angeles Galaxy. http://www.airmaxscarpescontate.it/scarpe-air-max-97-prezzo-basso.html . Speaking to the Chicago Tribune at baseballs Winter Meetings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, Boras called the former home of the Expos a "tremendous environment" for baseball. Scarpe Vapormax Off White . Klitschkos management company says the bout will be the Ukrainian fighters 25th world championship fight. The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger. Vapormax Scontate . -- Ken Appleby made 32 saves for his first shutout of the season to lead the Oshawa Generals to a 2-0 win over the Belleville Bulls on Wednesday in Ontario Hockey League action. BATON ROUGE, La. -- Duop Reath scored 16 of his game-high 23 points in the second half as LSU rallied for a 91-69 victory against Wofford in the season opener for both teams Saturday.The Tigers trailed the Terriers 43-39 at halftime. However, LSU dominated the second half by outscoring Wofford 52-26. After shooting 53 percent from the field (17 of 32) before halftime, the Terriers made just 21 percent of their field-goal attempts (7 of 33) in the final 20 minutes.Reath, a junior-college transfer who was playing his first game for the Tigers, made all six of his field-goal attempts in the second half. Reath, a 6-foot-10 center, was also 4 of 6 at the foul line after halftime. Reath grabbed a game-high 14 rebounds, blocked three shots made three steals.Our two point guards (Skylar Mays and Jalyn Patterson) have a really high basketball IQ, Reath said. So, its really important that I always stay alert and keep my hands ready. Our perimeter defense made it really easy for me and Aaron (Epps). We had size already. We had to learn to take advantage of that.Epps had 17 points, all but four in the first half. Wayde Sims came off the bench and scored 13 points. Antonio Blakeney and Mays each had 10.After tying at 51-51 on a layup by Reath, the Tigers went on a 12-0 run to take control of the game. Reath scored five of those 12 points. Wofford never trailed by fewer than 10 the rest of the game.Im really proud of the guys and how they hung in there in the first half, LSU coach Johnny Jones said. They came back out in the second half and did a great job of being connected and not getting their heads down. We got off to a great start in the second half and did a good job of not looking back.Reserve Nathan Hoover was the leading scorer for Wofford with 18 points. Both Cameron Jackson and Fletcher Magee added 14 points, while Eric Garcia had 13. Woffordd made just one 3-pointer in the second half after connecting on seven before halftime.dddddddddddd.We played a pretty good ballgame in the first half, Wofford coach Mike Young said. Coach Jones and his staff made a couple of adjustments coming out of the locker room to start the second half that hurt us a little bit. They gave us a couple of looks offensively that we didnt handle very well.BIG PICTURELSU: The Tigers won their 28th straight season opener at home with the last defeat coming at the hands of TCU to begin the 1986-87 campaign. The 22-point margin of victory was the largest in a LSU season opener in five seasons when it beat Nicholls State 96-74.Wofford: The Terriers have won just one season opener since they joined Division I for the 1995-96 season. That victory came against Fairleigh Dickinson 11 years ago. Woffords record against Southeastern Conference teams fell to 3-43.TURNING POINTLSU fell behind Wofford 37-28 just under three-minute mark of the first half. The Terriers made three more field goals before halftime, but the Tigers were able to reduce their deficit to four points on the strength of three 3-pointers by Epps. In his career, Epps never had made more than two 3-pointers in a game.BIG FIRST GAMEHoover, a freshman, began his career by scoring a team-high 18 points. Hoover was 5 of 11 from the field, including 4 of 6 on 3-pointers. Like his teammates, Hoover had trouble knocking down shots after halftime. He missed four of his five second-half field goal attempts.UP NEXTLSU: The Tigers will continue a season-opening three game homestand when they take on Southern Mississippi on Tuesday.Wofford: The Terriers will have their home opener against Allen University, a NAIA school, on Tuesday. ' ' '