When A Sierra Leonean Footballer Skipped His Own Wedding, Sent Brother Instead

In a bizarre turn of events, Mohamed Buya Turay, a Sierra Leonean international footballer had to skip his own wedding to stay with his team. It has been learned that Turay was forced to do this after he joined a Swedish club, Malmo, in the summer of 2022.

After spending several seasons in the Chinese Super League with Hebei China Fortune and Henan Songshan Longmen, Turay signed a one-year contract with the Allsvenskan side. While the deal was confirmed on July 22, the 29-year-old forward was set to tie the knot with his fiancee Suad Baydoun a day before in his homeland.

After the event was wrapped up, Mohamed Buya Turay shared a few pictures with his newly married wife on social media. As the couple was all decked up in their wedding attire, many thought that the pictures might have been clicked on the day of their marriage. But Turay later admitted that the pictures were clicked before the actual event.

Speaking about his marriage with Afton Bladet, Turay said, as per Sportbible, “We got married on July 21 in Sierra Leone. But I wasn’t there because Malmö asked me to come here earlier. We took the pictures in advance. So it looks like I was there but I wasn’t. My brother had to represent me at the wedding itself.”

The striker also shared his plans to bring his wife to Sweden soon so that they could live together. “I will try to get her to Malmo now so she can be close to me,” Turay said. He even revealed that the pair would go on their honeymoon later in the year.

A few years back, Mohamed Buya Turay created enough noise after claiming that he had suffered an injury during an international game as a result of black magic. “The native doctor told me the cause of the toe injury was because I stepped on a spiritual object in Leone Stars camp,” he told BBC.

Mohamed Buya Turay, who currently represents Odense Boldklub in the Danish Superliga, won the Allsvenskan title in 2019 while playing for Djurgårdens IF on loan. He had a crucial role in his team’s triumphant run and was the leading goal-scorer of the campaign.