| General |
| Eric Cantona | ||
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona | |
| Date of birth | 24 May 1966 | |
| Place of birth | Marseille,  France
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |
| Playing position | Forward | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1980–1981 1981-1983 |
SO Les Caillols Auxerre
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| Senior clubs | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls) |
| 1983–1988 1985–1986 1988–1991 1989 1989–1990 1991 1992 1992–1997 Total |
Auxerre → Martigues (loan) Marseille → Bordeaux (loan) → Montpellier (loan) Nîmes Leeds United Manchester United
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82 (23) 15 (4) 40 (13) 11 (6) 33 (10) 16 (2) 28 (9) 144 (64) 369 (131) |
| National team | ||
| 1987–1995 1997–2006 |
France France (beach)
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45 (20) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1997–2011 | France (beach)
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Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona (born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former professional footballer. 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. He won the league championship in seven of his last eight full seasons as a professional. At international level, he played for the France national team.
A large, physically strong, hard-working, and tenacious forward, who combined technical skill and creativity with power and goalscoring ability, Cantona is often regarded as having played a key role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing force in the 1990s and having an iconic status at the club. He wore the number 7 shirt at Manchester United with his distinctive upturned collar. Cantona is affectionately nicknamed by Manchester United fans as "King Eric", and was voted as Manchester United's greatest ever player by Inside United magazine. Set against his achievements in football was a poor disciplinary record for much of his career, including a 1995 conviction for an assault on a fan for which he received an eight-month suspension.
Following his retirement from football in 1997, he took up a career in cinema and had a role in the 1998 film Elizabeth, starring Cate Blanchett, the 2008 film French Film, and the 2009 film Looking for Eric. In 2010, he debuted as a stage actor in Face au Paradis, a play directed by his wife, Rachida Brakni. Cantona also took an interest in the sport of beach soccer, and as player-manager of the French national team, he won the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup.
Charismatic and outspoken, Cantona was an inaugural inductee into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002. The museum states: "The enigmatic Frenchman was one of the Premier League's most controversial players ever". At the Premier League 10 Seasons Awards in 2003 Cantona was voted the Overseas Player of the Decade. In 2004 he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
Honours[]
Club[]
- Marseille
- Division 1 (2): 1988–89, 1990–91
- Montpellier
- Coupe de France (1): 1989–90
- Leeds United
- Football League First Division (1): 1991–92
- Charity Shield (1): 1992
- Manchester United
- Premier League (4): 1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97
- FA Cup (2): 1993–94, 1995–96
- Charity Shield (3): 1993, 1994, 1996
National Team
- France U-21
- UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship (1): 1988
External links[]
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