“I am Eric Cantona, so I do whatever, what I want”. These words Eric Cantona said, when it was told him that it was impossible to attend in the court hall in a shabby jacket and unfastened waist shirt. There is an opinion that that heroes are quickly forgotten, but itsn’t about Cantona. The explanation for this popularity is simple. From France Eric went unrecognized and unloved with a reputation for rowdy, having had to play six clubs got a monthly suspension and added to this “deadline” for a month for calling the members of the Disciplinary Committee “idiots”. All this confirms the reputation of Cantona.
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The British were so fond of the French that in 2001 chose him “Player of the Century”, and after his departure from the great football called him “The best player the Premier League all time”. Fans at Old Trafford are still singing his name. Cantona himself explains his success in the UK : “During many years the French team consists of 11 sheeps. Nobody uses fantasy in field. Footballers are as like as two peas. In the times of Platini everything was otherwise. There was a lot of fantasy in football. But since the French football is like a play of robots. When I moved to England they played  football and they wanted to change something and and to retain a basis. I’m just lucky that I have come to England in the very moment when English football was in need of change. ”

He explained his decision that he was not like the commercialization of football. He could neither stay in England or return to their homeland. In the mid-seventies he went on a visit to the parents of the mother in Barcelona. Pleasant memories of that trip were so strong that Eric went to Spain.
After retiring from the sport he decided to do the public a profession – movie … Adhering to the principle that the mind requires not only the soul but the body he played in a beach football was playing manager of the French beach soccer team and led it to victory in the World Championship in 2005. With his former teammates Canton doesn’t communicate. He just doesn’t like phone talking and prefer to talk face to face.

The principal occupation of Eric Cantona is movie. Eric was acted  in 12 films and  he made a short films. Recognition came to him three years ago. In a cult film “Gluttons” he played the leading part. This role is his pride. After the release of “Gluttons” critics finally began  to write about him as an actor and not to add the words “former football player.”
40 year old Eric Cantona lives Now in Paris with a girlfriend. Anything in the Paris apartment doesn’t look like his football career almost two decades. He has no football plans in the future. He is with his life satisfied. Together with famous French actor Daniel Otoem he acted in Paris. “Second Wind” is a remake of the picture directed by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1966. Eric is sure that the film will be successful. Because they are in the same age.