Leo Messi....Just Married!!! All you need to know

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Five-time world player of the year, Lionel Andres Messi tied the knot with his longtime sweetheart Antonella Roccuzzo on Friday evening in his hometown of Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. The wedding took place at around 7 p.m.(local time) in the City Center complex, followed by the reception in the same complex at the Pullman Hotel, a five-star hotel with a casino.

The wedding gala was attended by past and present football superstars and their better halves including Neymar, Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic, Sergio Busquets, Carles Puyol, Xavi Hernandez, Sergio Aguero, Cesc Fabregas, Samuel Eto'o and Ezequiel Lavezzi among others. Gerard Pique and his popstar wife Shakira also attended the ceremony which was dubbed as the "Latin American wedding of the decade" by local media.

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Messi has known Antonella, also from Rosario, since he was five years old. Diego Vallejos, a childhood friend of Messi, told AFP that the couple met aged nine and Messi "fell in love at first sight" with Roccuzzo. Though Leo left Argentina to join FC Barcelona aged 13, he still remained in touch with his lady love over the telephone and by writing her letters. Football community across the globe came to know about their relationship when the Barcelona forward confirmed the same in an interview in January 2009. Since then, they have had two sons, four year old Thiago and Mateo turning two in September.

SPORTSMADDY wishes the couple a happy married life.

(Photo: Associated Press)

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