--- title: Rio 2016 Olympics: Brazil Rugby Player's Girlfriend Proposes description: Marjorie Enya, a manager at the rugby venue in Rio, proposed to her girlfriend Isadora Cerullo after Australia won the gold medal. canonical: https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T15:33:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:06.580Z og:title: Brazilian Rugby Player Gets Best Surprise When Girlfriend Proposes at Rio og:description: "I wanted to show people that love wins" og:url: https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b027653b87997fd/6988a1ab0a4a229f219cadae/brazil-rugby-player-proposal-enya-cerullo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rugby - Olympics: Day 3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Brazilian Rugby Player Gets Best Surprise When Girlfriend Proposes at Rio twitter:description: "I wanted to show people that love wins" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b027653b87997fd/6988a1ab0a4a229f219cadae/brazil-rugby-player-proposal-enya-cerullo.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Brazilian Rugby Player Gets the Best Surprise When Her Girlfriend Proposes at Rio by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 9, 2016 3:33 PM UTC  RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 08: Volunteer Marjorie Enya (R) and rugby player Isadora Cerullo of Brazil smile after proposing marriage after the Women's Gold Medal Rugby Sevens match between Australia and New Zealand on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Deodoro Stadium on August 8, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images) RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - AUGUST 08: Volunteer Marjorie Enya (R) and rugby player Isadora Cerullo of Brazil smile after proposing marriage after the Women's Gold Medal Rugby Sevens match between Australia and New Zealand on Day 3 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Deodoro Stadium on August 8, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by David Rogers/Getty Images)David Rogers/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Aug 9, 2016 3:33 PM UTC Brazil’s rugby team didn’t win a medal, but player Isadora Cerullo still had plenty to celebrate in Rio. After the gold medal rugby match between Australia and New Zealand Monday night, Cerullo was surprised by her girlfriend, Brazilian stadium manager Marjorie Enya, who grabbed the microphone and proposed, BBC Sports [reports](http://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/37018532). Many spectators had [left by that point](http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-09/brazilian-rugby-player-gets-surprise-proposal-after-olympic-7s/7711410), but there was still a crowd to witness Cerullo gladly accept Enya’s proposal. “She is the love of my life,” Enya told BBC. “I know rugby people are amazing and they would embrace it.” The couple have been together for about two years. [_Follow Motto on Facebook_](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/)_._ [Women’s rugby](http://motto.time.com/4363107/what-no-one-tells-you-about-cancer/) sevens were just added to the [Olympics](http://time.com/tag/2016-olympics/), and Brazil only qualified because they are hosts, according to BBC. Enya and Cerullo, who has dual U.S. and Brazilian citizenship, live in Sao Paolo together so Cerullo could focus on her Olympics training. Enya and Cerullo look forward to continuing their lives together. Enya said, “The Olympic Games can look like closure but, for me, it’s starting a new life with someone. I wanted to show people that love wins.” > [](https://twitter.com/DanielleWarby/status/762826188226113540) > [](https://twitter.com/AUSOlympicTeam/status/762795803077382145) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/"},"headline":"Brazilian Rugby Player Gets the Best Surprise When Her Girlfriend Proposes at Rio","datePublished":"2016-08-09T15:33:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:06.580Z","description":"\"I wanted to show people that love wins\"","url":"https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/","keywords":["motto","Summer Olympics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b027653b87997fd/6988a1ab0a4a229f219cadae/brazil-rugby-player-proposal-enya-cerullo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3b027653b87997fd/6988a1ab0a4a229f219cadae/brazil-rugby-player-proposal-enya-cerullo.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Rugby - Olympics: Day 3","caption":"Rugby - Olympics: Day 3","creditText":"David Rogers/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4444737/brazil-rugby-on-field-proposal/","name":"Brazilian Rugby Player Gets the Best Surprise When Her Girlfriend Proposes at Rio"}}]}] ```