It was October 11, 1992. He was five years old, but images of the countryman “Manteca” came to Salto later in front of River climbing the wire fence like a macaque in La Bombonera. That postcard was put inside Edinson Cavani and a memory was made with tongues of fire. Now “Edi” needs to emulate that act to fulfill his promise with the inner guru, to feel that his career will be embroidered in gold. cavani he wants to be Manteca Martínez for a while. Slip between that deranged fans until they become them.
The man raised barefoot, cooks with kerosene and bathes outside the house no longer has material needs. He’s already bought the country mansion of his dreams, the fastest thoroughbreds, spacecraft-designed motorcars. Now the luxury he seeks is to cross over to Uruguay for a barbecue, drink mate with people who don’t ask him what mate is, try the golden offal by Blas Giunta.
Cavani says “fabric” to the wire. He sings when he talks. Use the “ta, ta, ta” a la Victor Hugo. He loves dogs and cried oceans when Lolo, the Beagle he slept with, died. She was born on Valentine’s Day in 1987, when in Boca the goals were scored by Comitas, “El Murciélago” Graciani or “La Chancha” Rinaldi. Now will have to become a different animal to achieve what they have been asking since he landed: the seventh Libertadores.
Little Cavani in the ’90s.
“El Killer” does not know who Luis Cerezo was, but in Boca they are already soaking him in data. His compatriot was the first foreigner to put on the xeneize shirt, in 1905. Uruguayan blood later added sacrificed deities such as Severino Varela, the one who played with a beret and every Sunday night took the boat to Montevideo to earn a living in an office. Cavani also loves berets, but more so arrows and bows. His signature on the contracts is precisely in the shape of a spear. AND its arrow celebration is a tribute to the native people of Los Charrúas.
There is some historical repair in his goal celebrations. Lynx eyes and the parody of a hunter who does not forgive. Shell inside, though, the guy gets along with crying. It is possible to verify it when they show him videos of his childhood, that homeland that makes him vulnerable. “Continuous happiness was childhood”, he deduces in an old interview with the Uruguayan journalist Mario Bardanca. “As a child you don’t have worries, you live in the clouds,” he says and breaks like a jug, gasping for breath when they show him Omar “Gogó” Feris, a family friend of his who collaborated in his first steps in soccer.
“Ed” spends hours watching the birds. He has an obsession with birds and a particular and silent relationship with God. He belongs to an evangelical Christian association of athletes, Athletes of Christ. Of course, blood sometimes boils and not even religion corsets his anger: in 2019, in a Uruguay-Argentina classic in Tel Aviv, Messi was dared in an elegant crossover in which Leo invited: “Whenever you want“.
That career is made of faith, which in Europe began with a magical fabric of destiny. His first goal in the old continent, with the Palermo shirt, was pure mysticism for him. “I was not in the coach’s plans, but the attacker at that time had been injured, he had a fever, so they called me at home to summon me,” he recalled spiritually. “The coach was kicked off the court, and the second coach decided to put me on when we were down to ten!”
Cavani. lover of nature and simplicity. (instagram)
His personal story is lost in the heat of the 379 goals in six teams. Despite the extra “n”, lIt is named after the inventor Thomas Edison. Luis and Berta, his parents, used that sound to baptize him Edinson Roberto. The issue is portrayed in a children’s story that Cavani himself wroteThe light of my name, from the collection of books edited by his wife, Jocelyn, a cultural manager.
“Edi”, alias the king of peripheral vision, has already received two hundred nicknames since he stepped foot in La Boca. someone plays with what It is separated by just two letters from Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento). He hasn’t tried the choripanes from La Glorieta de Quique yet, nor does he know exactly what the admiral is and what shape it has, but he smiles. He feels that he is paying off a debt with that kid who watched Calcio on Saturday mornings especially to be fascinated with Gabriel Batistuta.
In the Playlist of the man who moves his hair from the 1990s to the rhythm of cumbia and pop, there is first a singer unknown to most Argentines: Lucas Gravy, Uruguayan composer who animated the birthday of the soccer player and Ángel Di María in Paris. It is only a matter of hours for EC to viralize those chords in Boca’s locker room and Sugo is blessed by the Argentine cavanimania.
Take mate “with ramp”. He showed it on Uruguayan television, just by leveraging the light bulb. She promotes “the mountain”, that the grass is uneven and “the hot water swells the grass slowly”. He is a perfect sommelier for a club in which not one more pin enters the stands, but the mate, intravenous injection, does.
Edinson Cavani, his daughter India and Jocelyn.
Four children, two marriages, he lived in Manchester, Valencia, Palermo, Paris, but his great reminiscence of La Boca was in the Nápoles habitat, that volcano so similar in the way of loving and hating. The typhoid Massimo Vignati tells it to Clarionwho treasures Maradona jewelry in the basement of his house in Secondigliano, in northern Neapolitan, and founded a museum.
One of Edi’s legendary shirts sleeps today with the smell of perspiration near Diego Maradona’s treasures. Between legitimate booties from Mexico 86 and even a locker room bench where “Pelusa” sat, Massimo located the “7” that Edinson gave him after the Cesena-Napoli game. “He gave his heart to Napoli,” considers Vignati from Italy. “A very humble person who after Maradona, he is one of those who made us most emotional“.
In Italy there is a song with his name (“Forza Cavani Alé”, which talks about ponchos, light bulbs and the explosion of Vesuvius with his football) and in Salto, his payments, there is a pizza in his honor. “Before the World Cup in Russia, I found out from Edi’s brother that he liked ham and I added other ingredients, black olives, cherry tomatoes and basil. This is how El Matador pizza was born. His face is printed on the box,” he says from Uruguay the owner of the La Blusera business, Jorge Martínez, a neighbor of the family. “There were no image problems with him because of this, the tribute allowed us. That defines him as a person. This is a pizza just like Edinson’s: simple and quality.”
The Matador in his time in Napoli (AFP)
Cavani does not seem almighty and that brings him closer to the street with empathy. He once did ballet to break down stereotypes among children. He decided to change the boots for pointe shoes to promote dance among boys in Uruguay. Also He went to the psychologist to ask for help after the knockout against Barcelona (6-1 against PSG). He felt the dark thoughts taking their toll.
“El Pelado”, as he was called as a child, the one who climbed a blackberry tree to eat them before children’s games, once wrote a letter to his 9-year-old self to The Players Tribune. There he remembers the feeling of playing for ice cream and that feeling so South American that no gringo would understand. He also talks about feeling the mud stuck to the soles of the feet. No one knows the current state of his hip, but If Edinson gets muddy as the Boca fan demands, he will achieve his last great trophy and at the same time his sentence: he will no longer have peace. On either side of the Río de la Plata he will be immortal.
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