10 Things You Didn't Know About Lionel Messi

3. He Shares His Birthplace With Che Guevera

Journalists work outside Matias Messi's home in Rosario, Argentina, Monday April 11, 2011. Police say the home of soccer star Lionel Messi's brother was sprayed with bullets Saturday. No injuries have been reported. News reports said that Matias Messi and
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Messi was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, the same place as the Argentinian Revolutionary. The pair were also born in the same month.

Lionel still owns a home in Rosario (pictured).

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