Edinson Cavani, an illustrious Uruguayan striker who built an impressive career with hard work, goals and a lot of passion, recently announced his retirement from the Uruguayan National Team with an emotional statement on his social networks.
🏹 𝐀𝐝𝐢𝐨́𝐬, 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐫
Edinson Cavani anunció su retiro de 𝐿𝑎 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒 luego de 136 partidos, participación en cuatro Mundiales, una Copa América ganada y 58 goles.
Gracias por tanto, de corazón, sos leyenda. #ElEquipoQueNosUne pic.twitter.com/JHR0a4hTHM
— Selección Uruguaya (@Uruguay) May 30, 2024
The already legendary “Matador” retires from La Celeste being nothing more and nothing less than the second historical scorer of his team, also having illustrious participations in World Cups and a Copa América, won in 2011, which immortalized him forever in the history of Uruguayan football.
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All Cavani’s goals against Brazil
Edinson Cavani retired from the Uruguayan National Team having played a total of 136 games, in which he scored 58 goals, managing to score against high-level teams on the biggest stages and, at the CONMEBOL level, the Matador was never beholden to the Time to face the biggest teams on the continent: Brazil and Argentina, scoring important goals against both teams.
However, fortune never smiled on him when it came to adding victories against the Brazilian National Team, having a good scoring record against Brazil, but poor results in the overall calculation.
EL CAMINO RECORRIDO ES MI MAYOR RECOMPENSA❤️🇺🇾… pic.twitter.com/o6XK0tzSAH
— Edi Cavani Official (@ECavaniOfficial) May 30, 2024
Since his debut in 2008, Edinson Cavani has only played seven games against the Seleção, including friendly matches, CONMEBOL Qualifiers and the Confederations Cup, and these are his statistics against Brazil:
- Edinson Cavani vs Brazil (2008-2021)
- CONMEBOL Qualifiers – 06/06/2009 – Uruguay 0-4 Brazil : 15 minutes, 0 goals
- Confederations Cup – 06/26/2013 – Brazil 2-1 Uruguay : 90′ minutes, 1 goal
- CONMEBOL Qualifiers – 03/26/2016 – Brazil 2-2 Uruguay : 90′ minutes, 1 goal
- CONMEBOL Qualifiers – 03/24/2017 – Uruguay 1-4 Brazil : 90′ minutes, 1 goal
- Friendly – 11/16/2018 – Brazil 1-0 Uruguay : 90′ minutes, 0 goals
- CONMEBOL Qualifiers – 11/18/2020 – Uruguay 0-2 Brazil : 71′ minutes, 0 goals, 1 red card
- CONMEBOL Qualifiers – 10/15/2021 – Brazil 4-1 Uruguay : 90′ minutes, 0 goals
- TOTAL : Edison Cavani vs Brazil – Seven games played, three goals, zero wins, one draw, six losses
Luis Suárez’s emotional letter to Matador Cavani after announcing his retirement
The Uruguayan striker with an illustrious past in Grêmio, Luis Suárez, used his social networks to send an emotional farewell letter to Edinson Cavani, reviewing his best moments from his formative stage to the present, retiring from the national team as a true legend.
Gracias @ECavaniOfficial por todo lo que hiciste por @Uruguay! 🩵 pic.twitter.com/SzUrzkvEFG
— Luis Suárez (@LuisSuarez9) May 30, 2024
Remembering Zagallo
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Binge the full series, available on Sambafoot’s Youtube channel.
