Cavani trades boots for ballet shoes?
Edinson Cavani has swapped football boots for ballet shoes to help popularise classical dance for boys and smash stereotypes in his native Uruguay.
As the world speculates on the 33-year-old's future, Cavani donned tights at the Uruguay National Ballet school in Montevideo recently to lend himself to efforts to get young boys in football-mad Uruguay to take up ballet.
"I don't share the view that every boy has to play only soccer," the long-haired striker told AFP. "I believe that girls and boys have to be free to seek their happiness in what they are most passionate about, because that's the best way to be well-trained, growing day by day in a firm structure."
PSG's record scorer ended his contract with the French champions and is a free agent, with clubs like Italy's Juventus and Atletico Madrid circling for his signature.
Trading his body-swerves and step-overs for pirouettes and "glissades," Cavani was put through his paces by professional dancers at the Sodre, Uruguay's National Ballet company, before recording a video message to kids.
"The experience was incredible, the dancers explained to me how to do the steps and when I saw them, I was left with a real sense of admiration! Because dance is something wonderful," he said.
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