Argentine
football star Lionel Messi has married his childhood sweetheart in his hometown
in what has been called the "wedding of the century".
A civil
ceremony for Messi, 30, and Antonela Roccuzzo, 29, was held at a luxury hotel
in the city of Rosario.
Football
stars and celebrities were among the 260 guests, with hundreds of police
deployed for the event. Messi, the Argentina and Barcelona forward, met
Roccuzzo as a child before he moved to Spain aged just 13.
Among
the guests at Friday's wedding were Messi's Barcelona teammates Luis Suárez,
Neymar, Gerard Piqué and his wife, Colombia's pop star Shakira. A number of
guests flew into Rosario on private jets.
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