Oscar Ruggeri slams Edinson Cavani over Boca injuries: "He's finished here" | OneFootball

2026 didn't start off well for Edinson Cavani, as from the beginning of Boca's preseason, the forward couldn't train alongside his teammates due to a back problem. This is why he didn't play any minutes in the friendly matches that the team led by Claudio Úbeda played.

In this context, on F90, a program broadcast by ESPN, Oscar Ruggeri, a former world champion defender who emerged from Xeneize, criticized the physical condition of the Uruguayan and implied that his retirement is near due to the various injuries he has suffered in recent years.

“I don't think outsiders should think about it. The one who has to think is Cavani, what he has to do. He has to think when this happens. I know he wants to turn the situation around and wants to do well, that he came to Boca and succeeded. But he has to seriously think about what he can do because his body is struggling,” he began regarding the situation of the former PSG player.

Continuing along the same lines, he added: “He plays a little while, maybe misses a goal, and I see some people laughing, others teasing him, and I think he is so great that he has to make the decision himself, not us. He has to make the decision that if his body can't take it anymore... Well, this is as far as he goes.”

“The career he had, what more is it going to give him? It's saying this is as far as he goes. He is not in debt. He came, tried to do it, but physically he couldn't,” he added to support the Uruguayan during this football moment he is going through, in which he is criticized by Boca fans.

And he concluded: “But when these things happen, notice that every time he's about to start, something else happens. These are signals that football is giving him, that you have to make the most difficult decision we football players have, which is to say this is as far as I go.”

It is worth noting that Cavani suffers from lumbago that has been troubling him since last year. So much so that he couldn't be present in the Torneo Clausura semifinal against Racing because he felt the injury during the warm-up. Since then, he hasn't played any minutes and has barely trained with the rest of his teammates.

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