The Uruguayan, who is missing his country's November World Cup qualifiers due to injury, has been an important player for Man United since joining them last year.
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Manchester United star striker Edinson Cavani spoke about the importance of faith and how it is essential for human beings. The Uruguayan, who is missing his country’s November World Cup qualifiers due to injury, has been an important player for Man United since joining them last year. He opened up about his beliefs to Inside United, during an interview with the club’s official magazine. Cavani has stressed that faith is not necessarily about religion but it is a key component of his life. “It’s a great point to bring up, talking about faith, because I think when you talk about faith, I don’t think you need to move the conversation directly on to religion,” the former PSG forward explained.
“I believe that when someone mentions faith, it can be applied and can be practised in many other areas of life, in many other aspects of life. I think that faith is important for all human beings. Because in many things that we are going to do, we need to have faith. Have faith in our families, have faith in a friend. Have faith in your life partner. In your wife, your girlfriend. Have faith in your team-mates. Or have faith in your work colleagues.
“It doesn’t matter if it’s within football or whatever other discipline. Have faith in God. That there exists an all-powerful being, as they say, that can help you to keep moving forward. I’d say it’s about faith in the general sense. A faith that helps you to turn situations around. That helps on occasions to achieve important goals. That can sometimes help you to withstand sadness. That can help you deal with a difficult situation or problem, of which there can be many. But more especially when there is an illness.”
He added, “So when people talk about faith, you don’t necessarily have to channel everything through religion. But you have to consider that faith needs to be applied and is necessary for many more spheres of life. So that’s how I am, and I experience things and live my life in that way.”
“I believe in my friends. I believe in my partner. I believe in my family. I believe in my team-mates. Because after all that, there’s always time to discover when someone wants to deceive you, when someone wants to be insincere, when someone doesn’t want to stick with you and follow you.
“I’ll let life and people in general show me differently, but I will always run my life having faith in the person who is by my side and who stays with me, having faith in God and having faith in myself. Faith in myself that I can succeed and that I can work hard to be a better person and, in my own case, to be a better footballer and sportsperson.”
Asked about the message he would want to give for the supporters, the South American urged them to have faith in the squad. “The message to the fans would be, well, it’s kind of related to what we’ve chatted about today,” he said.
“We touched on and talked a bit about faith. It would be to have faith in their team and to have faith in their players, who, without a doubt, will be trying hard to perform well and to keep growing and improving, so that the faith that they’ve shown us, we might be able to pay it back with good results, hard work and by winning. So I’d just like to send best wishes to all the United fans and it really is a pleasure for me to be here at their club.”
