The 35-year-old is celebrating at the moment, after Uruguay clinched a spot at the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar with a narrow 1-0 victory over Peru.
If selected for the winter tournament, it will be a fourth consecutive appearance at the finals for Edi.
And he could join an exclusive club, consisting of just Cristiano Ronaldo, Pele, Miroslav Klose and Uwe Seeler, if he nets during the competition, as he will then have scored in four separate World Cups.
We recently asked Edi what goes through his mind when he completes his primary job as a striker and he gave this illuminating and insightful answer about letting it all go…
“I’ve always described scoring a goal as being like a release of a lot of emotions all at once,” began Edi.