From the World Cup to the breakup: return, in pictures, to the idyll of Gerard Piqué and Shakira

In pictures, the love story of Shakira and Gerard Pique

In images, in pictures

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They ended a twelve-year relationship.

“We regret to confirm that we are separating, lamented Shakira and Gerard Pique in a press release, published on Saturday June 4 on the site of

.

For the sake of our children, who are our top priority, we ask that you respect our privacy.

Thank you for your understanding."

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Since then, the wildest rumors have been circulating about the reasons for this breakup.

In early June, journalists Laura Fa and Laurena Vazquez claimed in the Spanish podcast "Mamarazzis" that the Colombian singer had surprised the FC Barcelona defender in the arms of a young blonde woman in her twenties.

Allegations firmly denied by the entourage of the professional athlete.

Pablo Gavira's mother

But the rumors did not stop there.

Turkish journalist Melih Esat Açil thus claimed on Twitter – before deleting his message – that Gerard Piqué had cheated on his partner with the mother of his teammate Pablo Gavira.

A message embellished with a photograph… of the latter's sister.

The rumor has, moreover, never been substantiated.

And if that speculation wasn't enough to sow confusion, Brazilian model Suzy Cortez came out with her own statement, saying the footballer had messaged her multiple times to ask lewd questions.

For its part, the Spanish daily

maintained that the interpreter of

had tried twice to save his couple, without success.

A deafening tumult, a thousand leagues from the idyllic beginnings of this duo to whom everything seemed to smile.

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Shakira and Gerard Piqué met in the spring of 2010, on the set of the clip

, the official song of the FIFA World Cup which took place in South Africa.

The professional sportsman, under the spell of the artist, promises him to win the competition with the Spanish team.

“To be able to see you again during the final”, he slips to her then.

The footballer keeps his word.

In February 2011, he published a photo on social networks in which he appeared alongside Shakira.

The Spanish media see it as a real formalization.

During the following decade, the couple multiplied the demonstrations of affection in public, from the wink exchanged in the stands of a basketball match, in 2014, to the knowing look in the stands of the US Open, in 2019, going through the intertwined hands during a press conference, the tender embraces after the games of the thirties and the enamored kisses, in particular during a Shakira concert on the stage of the Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium in Barcelona.

In black and white

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Shakira and Gerard Pique are launching a 'virtual baby shower' to promote a Unicef ​​donation campaign.

(Madrid, January 17, 2013.) Abaca

In 2012, the duo announced that they were expecting their first child.

All this through a series of black and white shots.

The footballer appears shirtless, his gaze intense;

the popstar meanwhile sports a bra, their hands tied over her visible stomach.

Photographs intended to promote a donation campaign launched by Unicef, in favor of underprivileged children.

Their son Milan was born on January 22, 2013. And the couple seem happier and more in love than ever.

“I think if you can prove the existence of God, it would be through love,” Shakira told

in 2013. She added, “I had even lost my faith for a while… I started to think that God didn't exist.

And suddenly I met Gerard, and the sun came back.”

“A marriage would not change anything”

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Shakira, Gerard Pique and their sons Sasha and Milan attend the Balloon World Cup.

(Tarragona, October 14, 2021.) Getty Images

The couple does not plan to seal their union.

"We already have the essentials, you know? She confided to

, in 2014. A relationship, love and a baby.

I think those aspects of our history are already established, and a marriage wouldn't change that."

The same year, the interpreter of

announces that she is pregnant with her second child.

Sasha Piqué was born on January 29, 2015. And it is now four that the family scours the red carpets.

On social networks, young parents multiply the selfies in love, in Halloween costume as during his romantic escapades.

A complicity that the popstar evokes even in his songs.

Notably in

, which recounts the day they met.

In May 2020, the duo appeared on

' list of "the most powerful couples in the world".

Two years later, everything collapsed.

The couple's most recent photo, posted by Shakira, is on Valentine's Day.

Last vestige of a passionate relationship, which has spanned more than a decade – and should leave a big void in the stadium stands.