Third time lucky? Brazilian legend Pele to tie the knot with long-time Japanese girlfriend

Brazilian legend Pele, aged 75 years, is all set to get married to his 50-year-old girlfriend Marcia Cibele Aoki on Saturday, reported Mirror.co.uk.

Pele will tie the knot with his fiancee at a small religious ceremony in Guaruja on the coast of Sao Paulo. The couple who are together for the last six years were due to marry a couple of years ago but the ceremony had to be postponed after the legendary footballer suffered health problems.

The pair first met at a party in New York in the eighties but only started dating in 2010 following a chance meeting in a lift in Sao Paulo. Pele officially presented Marcia as his girlfriend at a football awards ceremony in Monaco in 2012.

Pele who will get hitched for the third time, has 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. She is also a divorcee.