Eric Confined

Eric Cantona is a Footballeur and Acteur French, born with Marseilles the May 24th 1966. Its sporting career in France and England started enthusiasm and admiration by defraying the chronicle and by unchaining passions. He is the brother of Joel Cantona.

Confined was assailing talented and inspired, but he was also a character of international football. Its escapades, its angers and even its interviews were relayed by the media because its character coleric and unforeseeable made of him a subject of choice.

Wanting to dissociate others, Eric Cantona also played with his image. He deliberately chose to cause, to shock by his attitudes (bust and high chin, cranium shaved at one time when nobody did it, collar of raised shirt…) Many players took as a starting point him without becoming “The King”, as the English called it.

Since his sporting retirement, Eric Cantona is actor and also directs himself towards the realization. He deals also actively with the promotion of the Beach soccer in France and in the world. In 2005, the team of France of beach soccer becomes world champion with Eric Cantona like selector and trainer.

Very many works in French language were devoted to him.

He married on June 16th, 2007, in second weddings, with the actress Rachida Brakni whom he met on the turning of the film Outremangeur . He has 2 children of its first marriage.

Biography

Beginning of career

Although born with Marseilles, the May 24th 1966, Eric Cantona did not begin its career with the Olympique from Marseilles. After having planned to integrate the training centres of Monaco or Nice, he chose finally that of Auxerre where AJA propelled it on the front of the scene.

Endowed attacker, it very quickly became a key component of the team pulled by Guy Roux. It was of this fact selected in team of France as of 1987. It gained the Championnat of Europe Hopes with the Blue ones in 1988, its only title in national team.

Clubs, titles and troubles

Many French clubs will stick to recruit it and it is logically with Olympic of Marseilles, one of the clubs emblematic of the French football, which Cantona at the time signed in 1988 for a record amount in French football. Little time after, Cantona was pointed out by its first media blow of glare: in August 1988, not appointed in team of France by Henri Michel, it treated the national sport selector of “bag with shit”, which was worth an exclusion of the national selection to him during one year whole.

The Marseilles adventure turned also short when in January 1989, it was distinguished at the time of a friendly match opposing the OM to the Torpedo from Moscow. When the Marseilles trainer (Gerard Gili) decided to replace it, the player expressed his dissatisfaction highly and threw his shirt with ground. The club had of another choice only to sanction it for one month then to lend it to the Girondins of Bordeaux until the end of the season.

After his passage to Bordeaux, Eric Cantona joined the Montpellier-Herault with which it gained the Coupe de France in 1990, only trophy gained to date by the club héraultais, then it turned over to OM. This second passage to Marseilles hardly proved more succeeded than the first. Whereas it profited from the confidence of Franz Beckenbauer, it was wounded seriously with the knee and had to observe a convalescence of several months. On its return, Raymond Goethals having replaced Beckenbauer, Eric Cantona could never find its place in Marseilles manpower, not returning obviously in the plans of the Belgian trainer. He signed then with Nimes where a new business put it at the round of applause French football at the end of a few months. At the time of a match, particularly irritated by the decisions by the referee, Cantona finishes by him throwing the balloon. The FF then sanctioned it by a month of suspension. The player answered this decision by very virulent remarks on television, which caused to worsen the duration of the sanction. By pride, Cantona decided in December 1991 then to terminate the contract the binder with the Nimes Olympique and to give up football.

England, land of welcome

Its decision to put a term at its career after this business was called into question by its admirors like by Michel Platini. The selector of the Bleus persuaded its attacker which it would find in the English championship an ideal ground of expression to start again its career. In January 1992, Cantona joined the club of Sheffield Wednesday. But this experiment lasted only the time of a setting to the test and a match of exhibition. Wearied by the hesitations of the leaders of Sheffield who were long in proposing a contract to him, Cantona accepted five days later a firm offer of Leeds United where it was persuaded to prove in France which he was a large player. He became champion of England besides a few months later. At the time of the celebrations of the title (the first since nearly 18 years for Leeds), brought to be expressed in front of the crowd of the supporters in jubilation, Cantona declared with a strong French accent: I coils you, I don' T know why, goal I coils you . Added to its performances on the ground, this simple sentence (which samplée on a rate/rhythm techno will be the subject of a disc) made capsize the hearts and marked the starting point of the " Cantomania" in England.

But the history of love with Leeds did not last. The following season, in spite of one starts in brass band (triplet with Wembley vis-a-vis Liverpool at the time of the Charity Shield), its relationship with its leaders were degraded quickly. In December 1992 it was finally transferred to Manchester United for a relatively modest sum. It connected several exceptional seasons in this prestigious club, gaining the heart of the fans and especially titles (four times champion of England and twice victorious of the Cup). That which was not that the Frenchie at its beginnings in England became then Eric the King . He was also elected better player of all times of Manchester United.

Confine-handled

The supporters of the club mancunien adulated French. He became a genuine star in England where its exploits on the ground erased all its last vexations. French football assisted incrédule with this event: a French football player that it had not known to twice preserve, elected “better player of the year” of the English championship! Cantonamania was such as it made it possible Manchester United to return in the modern era of football and to develop the merchandizing , the shirts floqués in the name of the player being sold per hundreds. A song was even created with its glory.

The idylle enters Cantona and England was however quite close to finishing itself prematurely. January 25th 1995, televisions passed in loop its famous “ mawashigiri , kick circular” against a spectator of Crystal De luxe hotel, which had insulted it after an expulsion. The business made obviously great noise and contributed to reinforce the legend of the player. Its detractors transfer there the stroke of too, its admirors rented on the contrary his definitely single personality. Without excusing the gesture, one can notice that the “victim” was a well-known individual of the police services for her violent and provocative behavior. It had gone down not less than seven spans of steps to go to insult Eric. What it was then advisable to call the business Cantona was marked by a new unforgettable media outing of main concern. At the time of a press conference related to the business, rather than to answer the multiple questions of the journalists, he pronounced English the following French sentence then: When the gulls follow a trawler, it is because they think that sardines will be thrown to the sea , before rising and leaving its semi-décontenancés semi-amused interlocutors.

Far from marginalizing it, the extra-sporting escapades of Confined made on the contrary the delights of its principal partners, in particular Nike and Sharp. Confined appeared thus in very popular advertizing campaigns where he did not hesitate to play of his image with a certain direction of the autodérision. A publicity Nike, the representative in front of the English flag with a sentence: 66 was a great year for English football, Eric was born , by analogy with the English victory of the world cup 1966.

Condemned in March to two weeks of imprisonment before the sorrow is commuted to 120 work hours of general interest in call, and suspended nine months by the English federation (suspension extended to the international level by FIFA), Cantona made a triumphal return on the English lawns to next October, by marking a goal against Liverpool FC in championship, then while contributing largely to the new championship of its team.

After the season 1996-1997, marked by a new championship, but also of the less bright athletic performances, at 30 years, Cantona announced its withdrawal of football. A lassitude of the sporting medium decided it to throw sponge at the top of its career. It had always had other occupations and other desires: the Painting and the Cinema.

Confined and the Blue ones

All in all, the career of Confined in national team remains the large black spot of its sporting course. After promising beginnings at the summer 1987, it entered in direct conflict with Henri Michel. Suspended one year of the team of France, he was recalled by Michel Platini. But in spite of the frightening duet of attacker which it formed with his friend Jean-Pierre Papin, the Blue ones could not be qualified for the World cup 1990, after a very beautiful course in qualifications, carried out only a Euro 1992 disappointing (elimination with the first turn) before failing in the qualifications of the World cup 1994 the autumn 1993.

Under Aimé Jacquet, in 1994, established captain and generally used in a role of leader of play as in England, Cantona, did not give the impression to be as decisive and influential with the Blue ones as it could the being with Manchester. Its suspension as from January 1995 caused to make him definitively lose the contact with the team of France while opened out in its absence of the boys like Zidane and Djorkaeff in the entrejeu of the national team. On its return to the competition, Cantona will be selected never again in team of France: it will miss in particular the Euro 1996 disputed in England. The joint not-selection of Eric Confined and of David Ginola, the two stars of French football exiled in England, was the subject of a sharp media polemic.

The cinema

Just after its sporting retirement, Cantona launched out in a cinematographic career. The medium of the football, little accustomed to this kind of decision, accommodated the news with caution. But Confined, always also voluntary and sure of him, took down a role noticed, since 1995, in happiness is in the pre of Etienne Chatiliez, at the side of Michel Serrault and Eddy Mitchell.

Other films enabled him to continue its second credible career of way ( Children of the marsh or Outremangeur ) and ensured the recognition near the French cinematographic medium to him. Eric Cantona intends himself for the realization.

He in particular lent himself to this discipline in 2003 by carrying out the short film " Bring to me your amour" according to the news " Bring me your love" of Charles Bukowski.

Anecdotes

Before the lawsuit relating to its famous “mawashigiri, circular kick”, its mother, worry, called Guy Roux not by asking to him whether it could do something, because it feared an imprisonment for his/her son, but because it feared a possible violent reaction of this one with respect to the judge in charge of of the file. Its first trainer will go in his turn until calling President François Mitterrand asking him to do something, this last having promised to him to render service where necessary to him.

Sporting career

Clubs

Trainer

2005- Team of France of beach soccer

National team

  • 45 matches in team of France has - 19 goals;
  • first match and first goal in team of France a: August 12th, 1987, FRG - France: 2-1;

Prize list

Distinctions

  • 1994 : elected official better footballer of the year of the English championship by the adherent players with the English Association of the professional footballers (PFA);
  • 1996 : elected official better footballer of the year of the English championship by the journalists of Football Writers' Association;
  • 1996 : elected official Eleven of gold by the readers of the World magazine Eleven and the televiewers of TF1;
  • 2001 : indicated Player of the Century by the supporters of Manchester United;
  • 2002 : only member not-British of the English Football Hall off Famed with its foundation.
  • 2004 : named by Peeled in the list FIFA 100 of the largest alive players;
  • 2005 : elected official better player of the history of First League (Premiership) at the time of a survey ordered by Barclays, the sponsor of the English championship.

Statistics season per season

Catalog of films

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