In May 2026, Gerard Piqué and Clara Chíaák were sighted in Venice, crossing the city’s tiny bridges and water taxis in a manner typical of couples who have been together long enough to feel at ease rather than perform. They seem to have settled into something that appears, at least on the outside, to be reasonably stable after three years of a relationship that started under about as much public scrutiny as any romance in modern Spanish celebrity culture.
After retiring from professional football, Piqué launched the sports and entertainment company Kosmos, where 26-year-old André works as a public relations specialist and event planner. They met there. Piqué is thirty-seven. The age disparity has been a frequent source of criticism, albeit perhaps less so today than when the relationship initially became public in August 2022, when everything about it was filtered through the cacophony of his very public breakup from Shakira.
That parting was not calm. Shakira’s music in the period that followed — specifically the Bizarrap session that essentially recorded the breakdown of the relationship in detail — became one of the most streamed songs in Spanish-language music history. The lyrics were specific. The public chose sides.
Martí, despite being a somewhat private person with a professional background rather than a public-facing vocation, found herself cited in millions of internet chats she had no involvement in establishing. It’s possible she overestimated what entering this particular relationship would do for her public visibility. It’s also possible she understood it and thought the relationship was worth it.
The Venice trip in May 2026 is the most recent visible data point. Neither Piqué nor Martí are exceptionally forthcoming on social media — Piqué posts periodically, Martí maintains a lower profile — so confirmed sightings tend to do more work than Instagram posts in tracking where things stand. They weren’t photographed fighting. In Venice, they were captured on camera. That’s the most reasonable conclusion that can be drawn.
Piqué retired from professional football in November 2022 and has since dedicated his efforts mostly in Kosmos, which has pursued several sports media and event rights opportunities, including Davis Cup involvement. His post-football public presence is mostly based around business rather than celebrity, which makes him a slightly less tabloid-friendly character than he was during his FC Barcelona years. Nevertheless, most retiring athletes are unable to match the amount of searches generated by his personal life.
Martí, for her part, has maintained a quieter profile than the attention she’s gotten might imply she would. She appears at events alongside Piqué when appropriate, has not sought media attention independently, and seems to have navigated a genuinely unusual situation — entering a relationship that became internationally discussed before it was publicly confirmed — with more composure than the coverage would have predicted.
