Eric Cantona
(2009)
Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona ( born May 24, 1966 in Marseille ) is a French former football player and current actor.
- 2.1 Filmography (selection)
- 3.1 successes as player-coach (Beach Soccer )
Professional career
Association
Cantona began his professional career at AJ Auxerre, moved in 1988 to Olympique Marseille and was temporarily loaned several times to smaller clubs. Despite its sporting achievements ( League and Cup winner with Olympique Marseille and Montpellier, successful national team ) wanted to deal not a big French club more the early 1990s it. This was due to numerous confrontations with referees, coaches, club tours and the French federation.
Only the influence of the former French national team coach Michel Platini conveyor and it was thanks to them that Cantona moved to England to end in 1991 instead of his career as a professional football player. His England career began in February 1992 at Leeds United, with whom he immediately won the English championship the following summer. In November 1992 he moved to the relatively low amount of 1.2 million pounds to Manchester United, where he rose in the following years, the superstar and crowd favorite of the English Premier League.
National
Among other things, because of its controversial nature Éric Cantona has played only until January 1995 for his native France (45 inserts, 20 goals). Quarrels with national coach Aimé Jacquet (1994-1998), the scandal of 1995 ( see below) and be completely surprising withdraw from football in 1997 barred him at the height of his club career the way in which then without him highly successful French national football team, which the winner of world Cup 1998.
Controversies
Really internationally known Cantona was despite his many sporting achievements by an incident on 25 January 1995. During game against Crystal Palace, he joined in the kung fu style for an audience who had insulted him before, after Cantona was sent off by referee Place. He narrowly escaped a two-week prison sentence and was banned by the Football Association and FIFA world for half a year.
During the quarter-finals of the Beach Soccer Championship in late May 2009, between France and Switzerland it came to the dispute between Cantona and the supervisor of the Swiss team, the former Bundesliga player Jörg Stiel. According Cantona stem had one of his players insulted as "black pig". After a brief war of words Cantona beat the Swiss in the face.
Title and Credits
In 2000 he was elected by the ManUtd supporters to their most important players of the 20th century. Furthermore him the English Football Association (FA) honored as player of the year 1994, the FWA (Football Writers Association ) appointed him in 1996 Footballer of the Year. Also in 1996 he received from the French trade magazine Onze Mondial and the Onze d'Or.
In his five years at Manchester United, the club won four English Premier League championships, including two times the coveted "Double" ( Premier League championship and FA Cup in the same season ). The variety of his achievements and the outstanding play, often coupled with a disadvantageous, controversial behavior, the reputation of an " enfant terrible" won him, Éric Cantona made her one of the most colorful personalities in international football.
Éric Cantona was voted the best of all time Premier League players on 19 November 2005. He received a survey ( Barclays Premiership Global Fans Report 2005) 26,000 football supporters from 170 countries with 17 percent the most votes.
- French champions Olympique Marseille: 1989, 1991
- French Cup winner with Olympique Marseille (1989 ) and the HSC Montpellier ( 1990)
- English First Division champion with Leeds United: 1992
- English Premier League champions Manchester United: 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997
- English Cup with Manchester United: 1994, 1996
- U21 European Championship with France: 1988
Actor
Since his retirement from football in 1997 he is active as an actor, especially in France. In addition, Cantona in the " Joga Bonito " campaign was (pt. for " play beautiful " ) by Nike to see as moderator. While shooting for the film L' Outremangeur he met French actress Rachida Brakni, with whom he has been married since June 2007.
Filmography (selection)
Beach Soccer
Éric Cantona drove off in 1999 as a player-coach and organizer of the structure of the professional French beach soccer significantly advanced. Under his leadership, France triumphed in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2005 in Rio de Janeiro.
Success as a player-coach (Beach Soccer )
- 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
Boycott action against banks
Attention was Cantona in November 2010 through its support of the Safer Internet Action bankrun2010.com. In this regard, he urged the citizens to withdraw money from bank accounts sämtliches on 7 December 2010. This makes the financial system should be brought to collapse.
Documentation
Éric Cantona was moderator of a film documentary that aired in 2012 with the name of rebels on the ball at Arte.
Return to Football
In January 2011, the newly formed New York Cosmos Cantona committed as sports director. The newly established franchise will play from the 2013 season in the North American Soccer League. Cantona takes on the tasks that players look for the new franchise and inspire.
Private
His brother Joël Cantona (born 1967 ) was also active as a professional football player and actor.