How Lionel Messi saved an elderly woman from being kidnapped by Hamas members

Lionel Messi is admired by many football fans across the world and is respected highly due to his performances at the best. Messi is the favorite football player of many people in the world, including people who might not watch the sport often. Messi is well known, and because of this, it saved the life of an elderly lady in Israel. Unfortunately for the people in Israel and Palestine, there is a war going on with many casualties. Luckily for this 90-year-old lady, saying the name Messi saved her from being kidnapped.

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UHN PLUS reported that 90-year-old Ester Cunion is an Argentine woman who was in danger of being kidnapped in Israel by Hamas members. Cunion talked about how she mentioned Messi to the Hamas members and how one of the members took a picture with her and left.

Cunion said, "They knocked on my door, and two came in and asked me where my family was. I told them that 'I lived alone,' and then they told me: 'You're coming with us, this whole thing is going to be on fire...'"

"I told them not to talk to me because I don't know their language and I speak Hebrew badly. I speak in Argentinian, in Spanish... One of them tells me: 'What is Argentina?' And then I ask him: 'Do you watch football?' And he answers: 'Yes, I like it.'"

"'I'm from where Messi is from,' I told him. And he answered: 'Messi? I like Messi.' There he grabbed my arm, gave me the revolver (an AK-47 rifle), put his hand on me. like that - with our fingers in a V - and they took a photo of us."

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Ester Cunion asks for help for his grandchildren

Cunion thanked Messi for saving her life, but she also wanted her grandchildren to be saved. Cunion said, "Now I hope that, if he knows that I mentioned it and because of him I was saved, I would ask him for my two grandchildren, who are there. I would ask him to please try to get them out because they are boys who are worth gold. One is called David and the other "Ariel Cunion."