According to Purepeople magazine, Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen has a new love: jiujitsu fighter Joaquim Valente. The athlete is Gisele’s teacher in Miami, USA and is friends with actor Malvino Salvador and fighter Kyra Gracie.
Joaquim Valente is 34 years old and was born into a family that breathes JiuJitsu. More than 65 years ago, his family members began practicing this modality with Hélio Gracie, the forerunner of this martial art in Brazil. After years of experience, the Valente family opened their own gym in 1995 with Pedro, Joaquim’s older brother, teaching classes in Miami.
Joaquim, the youngest of the Valente brothers, also practiced jiujitsu with Hélio Gracie and earned his teaching degree as soon as he moved to Miami in 2007. In addition to teaching, Valente studied criminology at Barry University.
The Valente Academy is renowned and one of the oldest in the United States. Officials from agencies such as the FBI, US Customs, the US Secret Service, the Miami Police Department, and others learned JiuJitsu from Brazilians.
So it’s no wonder that Gisele chose the Valente brothers’ academy to train in jiujitsu. The Brazilian model met Joaquim when she moved to Florida with her family in 2020, around the time exhusband Tom Brady left Boston’s New England Patriots for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, based near Miami.
Joaquim Valente (left) next to his brothers Gui Valente (middle) and Pedro Valente (right)
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Two weeks ago, Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady announced their divorce. Both had been married for 13 years and according to the American press, Brady’s decision to delay retirement and return to the NFL was one of the main reasons the relationship ended.
According to Purepeople magazine, Joaquim has affinities with Gisele, with a Zen lifestyle focused on improvement and the quest for physical and mental balance. Athlete and model posed together for an editorial in Dust magazine, the main theme of which is quality of life. See below:
Joaquim and Gisele were recently photographed having dinner together in Costa Rica, where the model is vacationing with her children. The photos were published by the website Page Six.
Gisele was photographed at a restaurant in Costa Rica with fighter Joaquim Valente
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