Brazilian football legend Pele marries third wife, Marcia Cibele Aoki, during local ceremony
Three-time World Cup winner wed 50-year-old partner at a small religious ceremony on the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil
BRAZILIAN football legend Pele was married for the third time on Saturday night - to long-term partner Marcia Cibele Aoki.
The 75-year-old wed his girlfriend of six years, 50, at a small religious ceremony in Guaruja on the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The pair were due to marry a couple of years ago, only to be thwarted by health problems to the ex-Brazil ace.
The pair first met at a party in New York in the 1980s but only started dating in 2010 following a fluke meeting in a Sao Paulo elevator.
Pele officially showed off the 50-year-old as his significant other at a football awards ceremony in Monaco four years ago.
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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 a further 14.
Japanese-born Marcia is the daughter of a paediatrician and a successful entrepreneur in her own right in the medical supplies sector.
Pele told a Brazilian magazine in 2012 they saw each other for the first time in nearly 30 years when they discovered they were living in the same apartment block.
Marcia was in the middle of divorcing her husband at the time.
The Brazilian icon said: “Two years later we met each other again in the same elevator.
“I said I was renovating my apartment and Marcia, who was separated by then, invited me to see a home renovation she’d done.”