How Messi Saved My Life – Argentine Abducted In Nigeria

An Argentine man kidnapped in Nigeria secured his freedom, by just mentioning the word ‘Messi’.

The man, 28 year-old agricultural engineer was abducted for three day in Nigeria and he claims that he secured his freedom after name dropping his country’s hero.

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The man, Santiago Lopez Menendez had been working in Nigeria since last year and was planting soya and corn crops close to Kontagora in the north-west of the country.

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He was sadly abducted earlier this week and was maltreated by his kidnappers, who barely spoke any Enlish and thought he was American.

In desperation that Menendez tried to explain that he was Argentinian and succeded in calming down the kidnappers with repeated cries of “Messi, Messi, Messi”.

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He was held for three days and was only freed after the company who employs him paid an undisclosed ransom to the kidnappers.

Back in Argentina, his brother Jorge spoke to Clarin and said: “‘Tell them I am grateful to Messi’, he told me. ‘Naming him is what saved me.'”

Lionel Messi is a multiple time winner of the Ballon’Dor and has been praised by multiple critics as the best player in the world.

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