Popular Model Marries Younger Soccer Player Newlywed Nozomi Maeda is in love with her husband.

　Followers were excited to see a couple shot of Ryoma Watanabe (29) of J1 Urawa soccer team and model Nozomi Maeda (32). [Photos] Hot! A shot right before they kissed for real! Maeda thanked the couple on Instagram by saying, “Thank you for everything on #GoodCouple’sDay,” and uploaded several shots of the two of them together. Watanabe hugged Maeda and posed with her lips pursed. Followers commented on their close relationship, “Oh my God, that’s too nice! They are too nice,” “They are sweet and cute,” “They are too beautiful,” “They are my ideal couple,” and “They make me smile, too. Maeda passed a reader model audition for the magazine “Pichilemon” in 2006, and appeared as an “Oha girl” on TV Tokyo’s “Ohasuta” from April 2007. On April 9, she announced, “I have married Ryoma Watanabe, who I have been dating for some time.