TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsMessi to wed childhood sweetheart in Rosario
Change text size
Gift Premium Articles
to Anyone
Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends, family, or colleagues. As a subscriber, you can gift 3 to 5 articles each month that anyone can read—no subscription needed!
Barcelona's Argentinian forward Lionel Messi speaks during the launch of 'Messi Experience Park' at a hotel in Beijing on June 1, 2017. (AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)
F
ootball superstar Lionel Messi is to marry his long term partner and mother of his two children, Antonella Roccuzzo, in their hometown of Rosario on June 30, the Argentina striker revealed on Thursday.
"The wedding will be held in Rosario, Argentina, on June 30," Messi's personal communications agency 6Pointer said.
Read also: Messi to launch amusement park in China
The ceremony between the five-time Ballon d'Or winner and his childhood sweetheart is to be held at Rosario cathedral and many of Messi's Barcelona teammates are expected, chief amongst them the couple's closest friends, Uruguay striker Luis Suarez and his wife Sofia Balbi.
Messi turns 30 on June 24 and Roccuzzo is 29 and the pair have been living together for nine years and have two children, four-year-old Thiago and baby Mateo.
