Uruguay, two streets named after Suárez and Cavani

With a ceremony in the La neighborhood Chinita, near the Daymán Hot Springs, the Uruguayan city of Salto, 115 thousand inhabitants on the eastern border with Argentina, has paid homage to its most illustrious sportsmen: from today two roads in fact, they bear the names of Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani. This was reported by the website of the Uruguayan newspaper El País, specifying that the initiative, approved by the council of jump department, also included other big names of the local sports such as footballer Pedro Virgilio Rocha, basketball players Omar "Chumbo" Arrestia and Nicolás Mazzarino, who also played in Italy in Reggio Calabria and Cantù, the jockey Irineo Leguisamo and soccer coach Aníbal "Maño" Ruiz. During the event, in the presence of Mónica Falcioni, former athlete and Uruguayan Olympic flag bearer, was also inaugurated "Terra di Campioni" square and it was proposed to dedicate Salto International Airport to Edinson Cavani.
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