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 the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
I play with passion and fire. I have to accept that sometimes this fire does harm.
It is enjoyable to make things visible which are invisible.
An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference between the pass from Pele to Carlos Alberto in the final of the World Cup in 1970 and the poetry of the young Rimbaud, who stretches cords from steeple to steeple and garlands from window to window. There is in each of these human manifestations an expression of beauty which touches us and gives us a feeling of eternity.
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.
When I think football, I think Manchester United. I still support United and always will. I will die with them in my heart.
He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.