A family from Lipetsk has named their son after the Barcelona and Argentina football player  Leonel Messi. The baby was born on the 24th of March.

      Initially the initiative wasn’t accepted neither by the wife nor the registry office but the man managed to convince his wife and the officials to do it. In the end the name of the baby sounds like Leonel-Messi Nikolayevich Volkov. According to Volkov, Barcelona officials already know about the fact. They have sent the family an invitation to come to Spain.