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
I love Rooney as a player. But I am a bit worried. Rooney can become the best player in the world at 25, 26, if he knows that in football you need to be strong, train hard, go to bed early, be careful what you are eating, what you are drinking, what you do in life.
I don't take life so seriously I can just play with life.
I think life is a big game we play.
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.
Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.
I don't play against any team in particular. I play to fight against defeat.
I don't play against a particular team. I play against the idea of losing
I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
Not really. I watched some Chelsea games and I don't really like the way they play.
This is quite an elitist film and I'm not sure that every Manchester United fan would like it. It's not an action movie that you might go to to relax.
I don't think the world of football is so serious. It's important to have distance about things and about yourself. If we believe we are kings or gods, we become crazy. We all know it's a game and we all enjoy it together.
Every man who has an idol or admires someone can recognise its themes. It's not only a film about the relationship between fans and idols, it's also a love story, a story of a man who is depressed, who has problems in his relationship with his teenage step-children.
With my two brothers, Jean-Marie and Joel, I wrote a two-page story and wanted to make some kind of movie. We met a French production company, called Why Not?, and the first name we put on the list was Ken Loach. It was a dream for all of us. So, we tried and we met Ken and Paul Laverty, his writer, and they read the two pages and were inspired by that to do something. Paul had the freedom to do his own story - and he wrote his own story, which is better than the one we'd written.