Eric Cantona

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Éric Cantona in Cannes (2009)

Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born May 24, 1966 in Marseille ) is a French actor and former football player , football official and player-coach in beach soccer .

Cantona won the French championship twice (1989, 1991) and the French Cup once (1989) with Olympique Marseille . He was loaned to HSC Montpellier and also won the French Cup there (1990). With Leeds United he was English Champion ( 1992 ) and also won the Charity Shield (1992). After moving to Manchester United , he was able to win both the Premier League ( 1993 , 1994 , 1996 , 1997 ) and the Charity Shield (1993, 1994, 1996, 1997) four times. He won the FA Cup twice with Manchester (1994, 1996).

Éric Cantona also won the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup .

Life

Cantona was born in Marseille to Albert Cantona and Éléonore Raurich.

His paternal grandfather, Joseph, came from Sardinia; his mother's ancestors were Catalan resistance fighters who fled to France from the Franco dictatorship .

Football career

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Eric Cantona, 2008
Personnel
Surname Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona
birthday May 24, 1966
place of birth MarseilleFrance
size 188 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1981-1983 AJ Auxerre
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1988 AJ Auxerre 81 (23)
1985-1986 →  FC Martigues  (loan) 15 0(4)
1988-1991 Olympique Marseille 40 (13)
1989 →  Girondins Bordeaux  (loan) 11 0(6)
1989-1990 →  HSC Montpellier  (loan) 33 (10)
1991 Olympique Nîmes 16 0(2)
1992 Leeds United 28 0(9)
1992-1997 Manchester United 144 (64)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1987-1995 France 45 (20)
1 Only league games are given.

Club career

Cantona began his professional career at AJ Auxerre , moved to Olympique Marseille in 1988 and has since been loaned out to smaller clubs several times. Despite his sporting success (champion and cup winners with Olympique Marseille and HSC Montpellier, successful national player), no major French club wanted to employ him anymore in the early 1990s. The reason for this was his numerous disputes with referees, coaches, club management and the French association.

It was only thanks to the influence of the then French national coach and sponsor Michel Platini that Cantona moved to England instead of ending his career as a professional footballer in 1991. His England career began in February 1992 with the club Leeds United, with whom he won the Football League First Division straight away the following summer and thus became English champions. On 26 November 1992, he moved to the relatively low amount of 1.2 million pounds to Manchester United, where he rose in the following years a superstar and fan favorite of the English Premier League.

In his five years with Manchester United, the club won four English Premier League championships, including twice the coveted "Double" (Premier League championship and FA Cup in one season). The multitude of his successes and the outstanding style of play, coupled with often disadvantageous, controversial behavior that earned him the reputation of an " enfant terrible ", made Éric Cantona one of the most colorful personalities in international football.

National team

Among other things, because of his controversial nature, Éric Cantona only played for his home country France until January 1995 (45 appearances, 20 goals). Quarrels with national coach Aimé Jacquet (1994–1998), the scandal of 1995 (see below) and his completely surprising resignation from football in 1997, at the height of his club career, blocked his way into the extremely successful French national football team , which formed the football team in 1998. World Championship won.

Achievements and Awards

society

Olympique Marseille (1988-1991)
HSC Montpellier (loan 1989–1990)
Leeds United (1992)
Manchester United (1992–1997)

National team

  • U-21 European champions with France (1): 1988

Personal awards

  • Most important player of the 20th century for Manchester United (Fan Award): 2000
  • Best Premier League Player of All Time (Barclays Premiership Global Fans Report): 2005 (voted by 26,000 football supporters from 170 countries, 17% of the total vote)
  • Player of the Year ( FA ): 1994
  • Footballer of the Year ( Football Writers Association , FWA): 1996
  • Onze d'or ( Onze Mondial ): 1996
  • UEFA President's Award : 2019

Official career in football

In January 2011, the newly established club New York signed Cosmos Cantona as sports director. The newly founded franchise will play in the North American Soccer League from the 2013 season. Cantona took on the task of finding and inspiring players for the new franchise.

Beach soccer

From 1999, Éric Cantona played a key role in developing professional French beach soccer as a player coach and organizer. Under his leadership, France finally triumphed at the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Rio de Janeiro .

Success as a player trainer (beach soccer)

  • Fourth in the European Championship with the French national team: 2004
  • FIFA World Cup with the French national team: 2005
  • Vice European Champion with the French national team: 2007

Acting career

Since retiring from football in 1997, he has worked as an actor mainly in France. In addition, Cantona was in the "Joga Bonito" advertising campaign ( Portuguese for "play beautiful") by Nike to see as moderator.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1995: Happiness is in the meadow (Le bonheur est dans le pré)
  • 1997: Question d'honneur
  • 1998: Elizabeth
  • 1998: Mookie
  • 1999: A summer in the country (Les enfants du marais)
  • 2001: La grande vie!
  • 2003: L'Outremangeur
  • 2003: Les clefs de bagnole
  • 2005: Une belle histoire
  • 2005: La Vie est à nous!
  • 2007: Le deuxième souffle
  • 2008: Black butterfly (Papillon noir) (TV)
  • 2008: Jack Says
  • 2009: French Film
  • 2009: Looking for Eric
  • 2009: On the death list (La Liste) (TV)
  • 2011: Switch
  • 2011: Rebels on the ball
  • 2013: The Class of '92
  • 2014: The Salvation
  • 2018: Ulysse & Mona
  • 2019: Once (music video) Liam Gallagher
  • 2020: Out of Track / Loss of Control (Dérapages / Inhuman Resources) (TV)

Others

Controversy

Despite his many sporting successes, Cantona became really internationally known through an incident on January 25, 1995. During the game against Crystal Palace , he kicked a spectator in kung fu style who had insulted and spat on him because of his nationality and had shown the Hitler salute . after Cantona was sent off by the referee. He escaped just under two weeks in jail and was banned from the Football Association and FIFA worldwide for eight months. In an interview, he regretted not kicking harder.

During the quarter-finals of the European Beach Soccer Championship at the end of May 2009 between Switzerland and France, there was a dispute between Cantona and the Swiss team's supervisor, former Swiss national goalkeeper Jörg Stiel . According to Cantona, Stiel insulted one of his players as a "black pig". After a brief argument, Cantona slapped the Swiss in the face.

Boycott against banks

Cantona caused a sensation in November 2010 with its support for the internet campaign bankrun2010.com . In this context, he called on citizens to withdraw all money from their bank accounts on December 7, 2010. This should bring the financial system to collapse.

documentation

Éric Cantona hosted a documentary film that was aired on Arte in 2012 under the name Rebels am Ball .

Private

While filming the film L'Outremangeur (2003), he met the French actress Rachida Brakni , with whom he has been married since June 2007. His brother Joël Cantona (* 1967) was also a professional football player and actor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Julian Coman: The king and I: meeting Eric Cantona . In: The Guardian , Guardian News and Media, March 25, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2012. 
  2. ^ Richard Williams: The other side of Cantona: Eric Cantona has become the most exciting footballer in England. The fact that he is French, loves poetry and philosophy, and has a volatile temperament makes him the most intriguing. Last week he was voted players' player of the year - while under suspension . In: The Independent , Independent Print, April 17, 1994. Retrieved July 21, 2012. 
  3. ^ Paul Henderson: When GQ met Eric Cantona . In: GQ , July 5, 2011. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012. Retrieved July 21, 2012. 
  4. UEFA.com: Eric Cantona to receive UEFA President's Award. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
  5. King Eric Takes the Throne at the New York Cosmos , New York Cosmos website from January 19, 2011 (English).
  6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51323991
  7. Katharina Dahme: Royal from Old Trafford. 11FREUNDE Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, November 20, 2011, accessed on April 14, 2014 .
  8. Eric Cantona: I didn't punch the Palace fan strong enough. I should have punched him harder . In: FourFourTwo . April 20, 2016 ( fourfourtwo.com [accessed January 25, 2018]).
  9. Look: Cantona hits Jörg Stiel in the face . ( blick.ch [accessed June 20, 2018]).
  10. Alexander Hagelüken: Kill the banks . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 23, 2010.
  11. Article on the documentation "Rebels on the Ball" .