Brazil football legend Pele has found “definitive love” and married for a third time on Saturday, a girlfriend of six years Marcia Cibele Aoki
The 75-year-old fell in love to a woman 25 years his junior, and did their wedding at a small religious ceremony in Guaruja on the coast of Sao Paulo
He had three children with his first wife Rosimeri Cholbi who he was married to for 12 years and two with his second, gospel singer Assiria Nascimento, who he was with for 14 years.
Marcia, who is of Japanese origin, is the daughter of a paediatrician and a successful entrepreneur in her own right in the medical supplies sector.
After the wedding, Pele could not hide his joy as he shared his picture with their mothers on Instagram captioned, “Que as nossas familias se unam na saude e na felicidade. // May our families join in health and happiness. ❤”
Pele and Aoki met in New York in the 1980s but only started seeing each other in 2010, when they crossed paths in an elevator in Sao Paulo.
Pele, 75, told O Estado de Sao Paulo newspaper that this time, he has found “love forever.”
Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pele is held by many as being the greatest footballer in history. He scored 1,281 goals in 1,363 matches, appeared 91 times for Brazil between 1957 and 1971 and played his club football for Brazil’s FC Santos as well as the New York Cosmos.
Three seems to be football legend Pele’s lucky number. His former first wife bore him 3 children, he is a three times world champion and he has celebrated his third marriage to a woman two thirds of his age.
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