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
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
I don't need to be involved with a game watched by millions of people to be fulfilled.
I don't know where my medals are.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.
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.