The relationship lasted just over 12 years. Although many believe that the artist and the soccer player met while recording the video for ‘Waka Waka’, the truth is that they felt chemistry in a very casual encounter
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Shakira and Gerard Pique pose with the Copa del Rey in 2015 (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
The world does not stop talking about the end of a great story of love that began 12 years ago and united Colombia and Spain with the same feeling. Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll and Gerard Piqué Bernabéu had a perfect relationship before the planet, a union from which Sasha and Milan were born, and, however, they confirmed their separation on the morning of June 4.
How did this love story begin, which apparently ended with Gerard Piqué’s infidelity?
Football brought them together
In 2010, Shakira was the official singer of the World Cup in South Africa with the success of ‘Waka Waka’, in which Gerard Piqué represented his native Spain. And, despite the fact that many believe that the celebrities met while recording the official video of the contest song, she filmed her part in Los Angeles and Colombia.
The reality is that they met in Madrid, the city where Shakira traveled to sing at Rock in Rio 2010. The barranquillera revealed that they went to a bar and drank some mojitos. At that time, she had a 10-year relationship with Antonio de la Rúa.
In the midst of interviews with international media, years later, Piqué recognized that the chemistry between the two was inevitable and, since then, they have maintained communication by cell phone.
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Years later, the casual encounter in the bar was recounted by the woman from Barranquilla in her song ‘Me enamoré’, released in 2017. In said musical success, although she had already been with Spanish for several years, the artist describes the coincidence of a woman with a handsome man in a bar, who invites her some mojitos.
“With you I would have ten children, let’s start with a couple. I’m just telling you, in case you want to practice” , says Shakira, referring to Sasha and Milan, her two children with Piqué.
Since their meeting in a Madrid bar in 2010, the singer and the footballer kept in touch. Months later, in 2011, the woman from Barranquilla confirmed the end of her relationship with Antonio de la Rúa , and some time later, that same year, the world learned that she fell in love with Piqué.
In an interview, the soccer player stated: “It all started when we were in South Africa and I wrote to him. He was already there because he sang at the opening ceremony of the World Cup and I asked him how the weather was ”. It is worth adding a curious fact about the now ex-partner and that is that the two were born on February 2, only that Shakira was born 10 years before Piqué.
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That year, in the middle of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Gerard Piqué won twice: he won the World Cup and the heart of the Colombian. A year after the relationship began, the happy couple announced the arrival of their first child, in September 2012: the Colombian singer became pregnant and had Milan Piqué Mebarak. Two years later, in 2015, Sasha Piqué Mebarak was born.
Over the last twelve years, the couple became one of the most famous in the world, uniting the two contenders. However, their reach as public figures never kept them away from scandals and gossip. Some of the most famous rumors is the alleged bad relationship between the Barranquilla player and Antonella Roccuzzo, Messi’s wife.
It is said that when Piqué met Shakira, he was in a relationship with Nuria Tomás, a close friend of Messi’s partner, who in turn is a great friend of Piqué for the time they shared at FC Barcelona. Rocuzzo never liked that Piqué broke up with his friend to be with the Colombian.
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Now, a scandal over Gerard Piqué’s alleged infidelity with a 20-year-old protocol model shocked and outraged the world. Although the couple has already confirmed their separation, it has not been pointed out that it is due to deception on the part of the footballer.