About 250 guests attended the marriage of Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo at a luxury hotel. They included Messi’s Barcelona teammates Neymar, Luis Suarez and Gerard Pique, who was joined by his wife, Colombian pop star Shakira.
Barcelona teammate Neymar arrived on his own because, according to Argentinian media, he proposed to girlfriend Bruna Marquezine and she said no.
About 150 journalists were allowed to cover the event that Argentina’s largest newspaper Clarin variously called “the wedding of the year” and “the wedding of the century”, but they had no direct access to the ceremony or the party afterwards.
Curious onlookers gathered before the wedding near the heavily guarded site hoping to snap photos of the soccer stars.
His bride, 29, is the cousin of a close Messi friend and the new couple has been close friends since meeting at a young age.
Messi and Roccuzzo stayed in touch after he left to play soccer in Spain at the age of 13 and they eventually started a romantic relationship in the late 2000s.
Roccuzzo moved to Barcelona, where the couple live with their two sons: Thiago, 4, and Mateo, 1. But they often return to their native Rosario.
“Messi could have had this wedding wherever he liked – Dubai, the moon. He can pay any plane ticket to anyone but he chose the city that’s in his heart,” Leandro Macaya said.
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