Martina Maccari: Leonardo Bonucci's Wife, Age and Family

Martina Maccari is the wife of Leonardo Bonucci, the former Juventus, Milan and Italy centre-back who retired as a player in May 2024. According to the Italian magazine Dilei she was born on 19 November 1985 in Abbadia San Salvatore, in the province of Siena, so she turns 41 on 19 November 2026. She is a former model who now runs an online storytelling project called Nettare, and she and Leonardo have three children.

Bonucci has moved into coaching since he hung up his boots. As of November 2026 he is a technical collaborator in Roberto Mancini's staff with the Italy national team, so the couple remain very much part of Italian football. This profile separates what the two have said publicly from what blogs repeat, with sources named wherever a detail could be disputed.

Who is Leonardo Bonucci's wife?

Leonardo Bonucci's wife is Martina Maccari. Dilei reports that they got to know each other by phone in 2008 and that their relationship dates from that year.

They married on 18 June 2011, according to English Wikipedia, which cites Juventus.com. Dilei also gives 2011 as the wedding year. Older copies of this article gave a different date and a venue, but we could not find either confirmed in a reliable source, so we have removed them.

Martina has also spoken about the hard moments. In a March 2022 interview with Diva e Donna, reported by Tuttosport, she said that pain does not always bring a couple together, that she and Leonardo had drifted apart at one point and that they found each other again afterwards. She linked that period to the illness of their second son. As far as is publicly known, they are still together as of November 2026, and no separation has been reported.

Who is Martina Maccari?

Quick facts

Full name: Martina Maccari
Birthday: 19 November 1985, per Dilei
Birthplace: Abbadia San Salvatore, province of Siena, Tuscany, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Age: 41 on 19 November 2026
Husband: Leonardo Bonucci, married in 2011
Children: Lorenzo (2012), Matteo (2014) and Matilda (2019)
Occupation: former model; founder of the editorial project Nettare
Instagram: martinazoev

Dilei describes her as a former model with a past in fashion. Her project is Nettare, which she describes as an online space for stories of beauty and courage, told and shared by people who want to exchange experiences. In the 2022 interview Tuttosport summarised, she said she wanted to keep developing it, and that Turin had become her city and the place where she wanted to raise her children.

Older versions of this page said she works as a real estate agent and gave the name of a brother. We could not confirm either in a reliable outlet, so they are no longer here.

You can follow her on Instagram. Here is one of her posts, captioned in Italian, about choosing to laugh.

She also shares causes she cares about, such as this post about women supporting women.

Sulla stessa strada: her charity walk in 2022

Martina's best-known public project is Sulla stessa strada ("On the same road"), a charity walk linked to Nettare. According to Sky Sport Italia, it ran from 1 to 26 May 2022 along the River Po, from the delta near Volano in the Ferrara area to Turin, with stops in cities including Ferrara, Pavia and Parma. The aim was to raise money, through the association Neuroland, for the neurosurgery department of Turin's Regina Margherita children's hospital, to buy an exoscope, a tool used in brain surgery.

Dilei puts the distance at 575 km over 26 days. Martina said her aim was to give back and share again what the family had been given, and Sky Sport noted that the family's time in that hospital had created a lasting bond with it.

Leonardo Bonucci and Martina Maccari's children

The couple have three children, all of whom the parents have named in public:

Lorenzo, born in 2012, the eldest.
Matteo, born in 2014.
Matilda, born in 2019.

In 2016 Matteo had to be operated on urgently. The parents have spoken about it themselves, including on Mamma dilettante in 2025, where Bonucci said there are no instructions for facing such moments. Tuttosport reported in 2022 that he was doing well. The family has kept the details private, and so do we.

Photos of the children are best left out of a profile like this one. The family does post them on their own accounts, but we have chosen not to reproduce them.

Who is Leonardo Bonucci?

Leonardo Bonucci was born on 1 May 1987 in Viterbo, Italy, which makes him 39 in November 2026. English Wikipedia gives this career timeline:

2005 to 2009: Inter Milan, with Serie A debut in 2006 and loan spells at Treviso and Pisa.
2009 to 2010: Bari, where his partnership with Andrea Ranocchia attracted attention.
2010: Italy debut, and a move to Juventus.
2011/12 to 2016/17: six Serie A titles in a row with Juventus, plus Champions League finals in 2015 and 2017.
2017/18: AC Milan.
2018/19 and 2019/20: back at Juventus, two more Serie A titles.
2023: Union Berlin.
January 2024: Fenerbahçe.
May 2024: retirement, announced by Fenerbahçe, with his last professional match the next day.

For Italy he won 121 caps and scored 8 goals, playing at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups and at Euro 2012 (runner-up), 2016 and 2020. He won Euro 2020 with Italy and scored in the final against England. He also took bronze at the 2013 Confederations Cup.

Bonucci in 2026: coach, not player

Bonucci's coaching path, per English Wikipedia, started with the UEFA B licence in July 2024. In October 2024 he became assistant coach of Italy's Under-20 side, and in June 2025 technical assistant with the senior team.

The Italian Football Federation's announcement of Roberto Mancini's staff, reported by the AGI news agency on 6 August 2026, lists Bonucci as one of three technical collaborators, with Antonio Gagliardi and Massimo Maccarone, under vice-coach Alberto Bollini. Gabriele Oriali returns as team manager. The staff was to start working with Mancini from the September camp, ahead of Nations League matches against Turkey, France and Belgium. Mancini replaced Gennaro Gattuso after Italy failed to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, and Bonucci's role is described as a continuation of his time under Gattuso.

Mancini, of course, was the coach who won Euro 2020 with Bonucci on the pitch.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Leonardo Bonucci's wife?

Martina Maccari, a former model and the founder of the online project Nettare. They have been married since 2011.

How old is Martina Maccari?

She was born on 19 November 1985, according to Dilei, so she turns 41 on 19 November 2026.

Where is Martina Maccari from?

She was born in Abbadia San Salvatore, in the province of Siena, Tuscany. She is Italian.

How did Bonucci and Martina Maccari meet?

Martina has told the story herself, as reported by Sky Sport Italia in 2019: they had crossed paths at a bowling alley on Easter Monday 2008 without really noticing each other, then she sent him a message for a bet with a friend who had his number. Dilei adds that they first got to know each other by phone and have been a couple since 2008.