Eric Cantona
Eric Cantona
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantonais a French actor and former international footballer for the French national team. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes and Leeds United before ending his career at Manchester United where he won four Premier League titles in five years and two League and FA Cup Doubles...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth24 May 1966
CityMarseille, France
CountryFrance
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
We won the European Championship last September and now the world title. That is some year for French beach soccer! Now comes the hard part. We have to keep improving and that's difficult because it's tough to do better than winning a world title.
Great businessmen are creators.
Football lost its excitement for me.
I know that I have a face, a look, people aren't used to seeing. A presence.
I always knew I had to work hard.
I always wanted to play against the best.
I was always being creative. I could never have played a defensive role because I would have been forced to destroy the other player's creativity.
Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.
I'm just enjoying my life at the moment.
Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.
I'm lucky to have the privilege of being able to choose what I want to do.
Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.
You are constantly battling against your own weaknesses to make a good performence.