Pele and Marcia Cibele Aoki, his girlfriend of six years, were due to marry a couple of years ago but the ceremony had to be postponed after he 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, - The Mirror reports.
Pele officially presented the 50-year-old as his girlfriend at a football awards ceremony in Monaco in 2012.