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Éric Daniel Pierre Cantona ((:e'ʁik kɑ̃to'na); born 24 May 1966) is a French actor and former international footballer for the French national team. 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. 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 he enjoys iconic status at the club. He wore the number 7 shirt at Manchester United with his trademark 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.〔Ganguly, Aubrey (March 2001). Ganguly, Aubrey. ed. "Eric and us". United (Manchester: Future Publishing) (100): 42–48〕 Set against his achievements in football was a poor disciplinary record for much of his career, including a 1995 conviction for a 'kung-fu' assault on a fan, and at a press conference following his initial conviction Cantona gave his famous "seagulls" statement. His disciplinary record, however, was much improved after he returned from the eight-month suspension right up to his retirement as a player two years later. 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 débuted as a stage actor in ''Face au Paradis'', a French play directed by his wife, Rachida Brakni.〔("Eric Cantona and Rachida Brakni are toast of Paris as ex-footballer makes stage début" ). ''The Guardian''. 10 January 2010.〕 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".〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nationalfootballmuseum.com/hall-of-fame/profiles/entry/eric-cantona/ )〕 On 19 January 2011, Cantona joined the revived New York Cosmos as Director of Soccer.〔("King Eric Takes the Throne at the New York Cosmos" ). New York Cosmos. 19 January 2011.〕 ==Early life== Although it has been suggested that he was born in Paris,〔Worrall 2008, p. 103〕 Cantona was actually born in Marseille, to Albert Cantona, a nurse and a painter, and Éléonore Raurich, a dressmaker. The family home was a cave in one of the hills in the Les Caillols area of Marseille, between the city's 11th and ''12th arrondissements'', and it was rumoured to have been used as a look-out post for the German Army, towards the end of the Second World War. The site was chosen in the mid-1950s by Cantona's paternal grandmother, Lucienne, whose husband, Joseph, was a stonemason. By the time Cantona was born in 1966, the hillside cave had become little more than a room in the family's house, which was now up to a liveable standard. Cantona has two brothers, Jean-Marie, who is four years older; and Joël, who is 17 months younger. Cantona came from a family of immigrants: his paternal grandfather, Joseph, had immigrated to Marseille from Sardinia, while his mother's parents had been Catalan separatists. Pere Raurich, Cantona's maternal grandfather, was fighting the armies of General Franco in the Spanish Civil War in 1938 when he suffered a serious injury to his liver, and he had to retreat to France for medical treatment with his wife Paquita. The Raurichs stayed in Saint-Priest, Ardèche, before settling in Marseille.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eric Cantona」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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