Lionel Messi, may go down in history as one of the greatest footballers ever, but that hasn't stopped his hometown of Rosario in Argentina from passign a law preventing parents from naming their children "Messi."

According to a report in Spanish publication Marca has quoted Gonzalo Carrillo, the civil register in Santa Fe, as saying, it is "prohibited by law" to name babies Messi -- because it is a surname and not a first name.