Eight-time Ballon d'Or-winner Lionel Messi met Lionel Richie, the American singer he was named after. "When Lionel meets Lionel! His mother named him after me...and now here we are...Great meeting you after all these years," Richie wrote on Instagram, sharing pictures. "Our meeting will happen. They named him after me...how about that? I love it," Richie had said in 2015.