Story highlights Image of young football fan wearing plastic bag as jersey was shared online

False leads pointed to Iraq, but it turns out he's five years old and lives in Afghanistan

(CNN) Lionel Messi fans, the search is over.

The boy seen wearing a striped plastic bag with the football player's name and number scrawled in blue ink has been found.

He's five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi from Afghanistan who "loves football and Messi."

"When he suddenly wakes up in the middle of the night, he starts crying that he wants to go to Messi," his father, Arif Ahmadi, told CNN from the family's farm in Jaghori, south-west of Kabul.

Murtaza then started asking his father for a Messi jersey, Ahmadi said.

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