Eric Cantona Biography

Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a former international footballer for the French national team and a French actor. He played for Auxerre, Martigues, Marseille, Bordeaux, Montpellier, Nîmes, and Leeds United before finishing his career with Manchester United, where he won four Premier League championships and two League and FA Cup Doubles in five years. In seven of his last eight complete seasons as a professional, he won the league title. Cantona was a big, physically powerful, hard-working, and tenacious striker who coupled technical talent and inventiveness with strength and goalscoring ability. He is widely credited with helping Manchester United resurrect as a footballing powerhouse in the 1990s. At Manchester United, he wore the number 7 jersey with his signature upturned collar. Manchester United fans lovingly refer to Cantona as "King Eric," and Inside United magazine ranked him the club's best-ever player. For most of his football career, he had a bad disciplinary record, which included a 1995 conviction for violence on a supporter. His disciplinary record, on the other hand, improved dramatically once he was reinstated following an eight-month suspension. Following his retirement from 1997, he pursued a career in film, appearing in the films Elizabeth (1998), French Film (2008), and Looking for Eric (2009), all starring Cate Blanchett. He made his theatrical debut in Face au Paradis, a French drama directed by his wife Rachida Brakni, in 2010. Cantona also dabbled in beach soccer, winning the 2005 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup as a player-manager for the French national squad. The enigmatic Frenchman was one of the Premier League's most contentious players ever, according to the museum. He was an initial entrant into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002.

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