Edinson Cavani once again sounded like a reinforcement for Boca Juniors, something that has been happening for two years, when Juan Román Riquelme took over as vice president of the La Ribera club and he began to be tempted by the possibility of wearing blue and gold shirt.

“I think next year Cavani will be with me. I talked to him over and over again. In December, he told me he really wanted to come along. I told him that was the only thing we had to offer. his is our pitch moves when it’s full ”, Riquelme excited a year ago, acknowledging the economic difficulty of getting a figure out of Europe.

To increase expectations, these days, the former soccer player Diego Lugano He warned that the scorer would soon be back in South America, and named Boca among teams that could rely on his services.

“I really see Edi now that there are serious possibilities to get back to South America. Obviously here we talked about Brazilian teams, because there is a lot of talk about him here, as well as the topic of Boca. He left that possibility. open, “said the strong former central marker.

And he added: “He was very homely, from his city, very Uruguayan. He was even familiar with wanting to come back, but he also found himself wanting to play Libertadores, to feel the beautiful and insane pressure that we have in South America “.

But aside from the illusion of clubs in this part of the Atlantic or the footballer’s logical desire to be closer to Salto, his hometown, there is a part of the equation that has no name: the Manchester United fans, the club if where Edi plays.

Shout out to the fan

In recent hours, that part of the story has been exposed on social networks. A fan of the team where Cristiano Ronaldo plays burst into tears when he met Cavani outside a stadium.

The South American showed his ability to people and hugged him with a fatherly hug while holding one of his children with his other foot. In the extreme heat, he signed a photo book that the English maiden had and accepted to wear the small headband it offered him as a gift.

With a big smile, Cavani posed for the photo and showed off his best version, the one that everyone featured of him outside the courts. And that makes possible the decision to leave the millions and the luxury of the Premier to go and take himself to the Libertadores. Is it in Boca? No one knows, just Edi.