Lionel Messi comes to the rescue of tearful young fan who was turned away by security

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Lionel Messi made a young Argentina fan's year after the child had been prevented from meeting his hero.

Messi had just touched down in Montevideo ahead of Argentina's World Cup qualifier with Uruguay.

As the Barcelona striker and his Argentina teammates were ushered into their team hotel, an opportunistic young fan tried to squeeze past security to meet the 30-year-old.

However Messi, seeing the boy being led away in tears, demanded that the child be brought back before hugging the lucky fan as well as posing for a series of photos.

The match ended a goalless draw leaving Jorge Sampaoli's side 13 points adrift of Brazil, who sit top of the South American World Cup qualifying group.

Before the match Messi and his Barcelona teammate Luis Suarez stood side-by-side to promote Argentina and Uruguay's joint-bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

The top four teams automatically qualify for the World Cup, while the fifth-place team plays in a two-match playoff to secure a place.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...-meet-tearful-young-fan-turned-away-security/

 

[Specialisttailender]

Incidents like these only set bad example, imagine all those other kids that was waiting to see their favourite player patiently while obeying rules and you see one idiot breaking all the rules and decides to be selfish. There was a similar incident at Chepauk with some idiot trying to get into Indian dressing room during WI Odi tour of India in early 2000s, the police at that time grabbed him just in time and gave him a good beating before filing an FIR.