What to know
- Guilherme and Rossana met eight years ago at a Brazilian party.
- A mutual friend introduced them.
- The couple credits humour and banter as a key part of their relationship.
- They attended Toronto’s FIFA Fan Festival together.
- The story is part of NOW Toronto’s new “How We Met” dating series.
FIFA might be the season of flings for singles, but some soccer fans are already coupled up.
Toronto dating has a reputation for failing many singles. Terms like situationships and ghosting have been normalized, and FIFA’s arrival was expected to bring lots of new singles ready to mingle. But what about the successful couples in the city? After all, love can still sometimes be found.
Now Toronto’s introducing a weekly “How We Met” segment, so for this edition of This is Dating Now, we asked a FIFA Fan Fest couple to tell us their love story.
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The Brazilian couple, Guilherme and Rossana C., met eight years ago, and their banter has never stopped.
How did they first meet?
The couple met at a “wild” Brazilian party.
“We’re both from Brazil, and there was a lot of drumming and capoeira, so we had the perfect setting for us to meet,” Guilherme told Now Toronto.
Rossana explained that her friend introduced her to Guilherme.
“I approached her friend first, but she’s a much older lady, she’s in her 80s,” he joked about her friend’s age. “But then all of us, all of a sudden, she came back, and then we started talking, and from there it’s history.”
How do they feel about hot new singles coming for FIFA?
“We have German people coming, Malaysian people coming. It’s exciting, but my eyes are on my Brazilian,” Guilherme said.
The moment was so cute, showing off their banter as Rossana said, “I hope so,” laughed, and hugged him.
How did they know they were “the one” for each other?
Again, the couple does not seem to lack anything in the laughter department.
Guilherme joked they’re “still not sure, but we highly believe that we are.”
“We keep asking ourselves those questions,” Rossana added.
Got a dating story for us? We want to hear it! Send your experiences to news@nowtoronto.com for a chance to be featured in a future edition of This Is Dating Now.
