Pele has been married twice before and Marcia would be his third wife after the wedding.

The 75-year-old and Marcia were due to get married in 2010 but the ceremony was suspended due to his health problems.

Marcia is a successful entrepreneur and is 25 years younger than Pele.

The couple met in a 2008 eighties in New York party when Marcia was in the middle of a split from her former husband.

Pele and Marcia made their first public appearance at a football awards ceremony in Monaco in 2012.

With his first wife, Rosimeri Cholbi the football icon has three children and two with his second, gospel singer Assiria Nascimento, who he was with for 14 years.