WATCH: Syrian refugee's dream comes true with Lionel Messi meeting

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A young Syrian refugee`s dreams came true when she met Lionel Messi and his Barcelona teammates after the club invited her to attend a La Liga match earlier this month.

Nujeen Mustafa, 18, who suffers from cerebral palsy and is confined to a wheelchair, fled her hometown of Aleppo two years ago with her sister Nasrin.

The two girls made a 5,600km (3,479 mile) journey to Cologne where they were sheltered as refugees. After discovering that Nujeen was a fan of Barca, the club surprised her by arranging for her to visit Spain and watch them play Celta Vigo on Dec. 2.

"Messi has a kind of a baby face, he looks younger even though he`s 30, so it`s like `you have grown up now` because I know him since 2007," Nujeen told Reuters in an interview.

"At that time he looked like a baby," she added, before addressing the five-times Ballon d`Or winner: "You have changed, you look like an adult now."

"He`s a really shy guy, that hasn`t changed," said Nujeen, who hopes Barcelona win six titles again to match their feat in 2009 when they won the King`s Cup, La Liga, the Champions League, the Spanish Super Cup, the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

Nujeen, who speaks Arabic, French, English and German, has become a symbol of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and hopes peace will someday return to her country.

Everyone has a Christmas wish.
We helped Nujeen's come true! #SharingDreams pic.twitter.com/Z3eTR3nRH2 — FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) December 14, 2017

"Sometimes I feel homesick, I ask myself what am I doing here, I want to go back home where I lived and loved you know, but I want to move forward I don`t like being a victim, I am a survivor.

"I dream of becoming a physicist and perhaps an astronaut and I dream of... yeah one of my dreams is to meet the Queen of England and I still want to."