Who is Ali Turganbekov, the boy who was born without legs and played football with Maradona, Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo

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This week the meeting of Cristiano Ronaldo with a child without legs that went beyond a simple greeting and an autograph went viral, but it consisted of a game with the ball between the young fan and the Portuguese star. But Juventus striker is not the only athlete who has enjoyed the presence of Ali Turganbekov.

This 10-year-old Kazakh boy travels the planet with his father and fulfills the dream of playing, at least for a few minutes, with world stars. This has been done not only with CR7, but also with Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.

He was met by the current gymnastics and fencing technician La Plata in 2018, when at that time Ten worked at the head of Fujairah FC of the United Arab Emirates. Ali entered the stadium turf during training, dressed as a goalkeeper and stopped some shots of the former captain of the Argentine national team. Then, both formed an offensive pair and kicked against a friend of the young Asian.

He was visited by Messi this year, after a Barcelona match. Although he could not play football with Barcelona's 10, he could talk for a while, hug, take a few pictures and get an autograph.

He could play ball with Xavi Hernández, current coach of Al Sadd, with whom he headed the ball several times to make it into a ice cream shop after a practice of the Qatari team.

Ali Turganbekov was also invited by UEFA to the European Super Cup 2019 that crowned Liverpool over Chelsea in Istanbul. There, he was in charge of delivering the trophy to Mo Salah, captain of the Jürgen Klopp team, with whom he was then photographed.

The little Kazakh shares all his encounters with stars on social networks and it was there that he explained that while his parents make a great effort to finance travel, sometimes he needs a little faith help. It was so that Kariat FC, a team of which he is a supporter in his country, paid a flight to Ukraine so he can meet one of his greatest idols, Andrei Shevchenko. The winner of the 2004 Golden Ball promised that in 2020 he will organize a meeting so he can meet the entire Chelsea squad.

Ali Turganbekov is a football fan, a sport he also practices with friends. But he is not the only one, he also enjoys swimming and fighting. He is a fervent follower of UFC, and was also able to meet Khabib Nurmagomedov, one of the great stars of the mixed martial arts company.

This 10-year-old was born without his lower extremities because he suffers from tetraamelia syndrome, a rare disease that causes multiple malformations. But this problem has not prevented him from fulfilling his dreams of meeting several sports stars and being able to become a celebrity, something he is achieving since he has 115,000 followers on Instagram.