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
Football lost its excitement for me.
Even as a footballer, I was always being creative.
I try to find different ways of expressing myself. Without that I will die.
I didn't want really to be involved in a normal soccer club.
A home is crucial, the foundation of a stable family.
I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.
I have to wear clothes but I don't like to give an idea of what I am with clothes.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
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.
The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good thing. As long as that rivalry remains within the spirit of competition, it con only spur everyone on.
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.
The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.