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QUEBRADA, PUERTO RICO
In what is sure to raise a few local eyebrows, a young man has officially wed a football in his home town of Quebrada in Puerto Rico’s north-west. Ricardo Morales-Silva, an avid supporter of Uruguayan side Danubio Futbol Club, did the unexpected when he tied the knot with an Umbro football he purchased as a teenager. The ten minute ceremony was celebrated with six friends who also support the club.
“People used to tell me that if I love football so much, I should marry it!” said Silva, 23. So he did. It comes only two weeks after a man from neighbouring town Cayuco left his entire estate to a pet llama.
Friends spoke of how a junior local coach "kicked the ball through the door" up toward a makeshift altar where Silva was waiting. Best friend Oscar Acevedo stated that it was “...very strange, but a ceremony that I will never forget.”
Celebrants across the nation have taken financial advantage of a loophole in a recently introduced law, which states that residents may act as an officiator at weddings, but does not stipulate specific conditions regarding the couple’s make up.
Both Silva and the celebrant are now subject to police investigation, given that long-standing Puerto Rican laws strictly prohibit anything but a heterosexual marriage.
