Eric Cantona » Sightings

Cantona at Football Extravaganza

Linus — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:00:45 +0000

Spotted at: Hilton Park Lane. London, England

For: Football Extravaganza 2010

Cantona at the Hilton Park Lane hotel to receive his Legend of Football Award at the annual Football Extravaganza from Sir Alex Ferguson.

Cantona Back At United

Linus — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:59:28 +0000

Spotted at: Manchester, England

For: Visiting Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United’s training ground, Carrington.

Cantona was reunited with Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Monday.

The Frenchman was in town and took the opportunity to pay his old boss a visit at United’s Carrington training ground.

Cantona makes stage debut

Linus — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:45 +0000

Spotted at: Theatre Marigny just off the Champs Elysees, Paris
on Tuesday, 26 January 2010
For: stage debut of Face au Paradis (Facing Paradise).

Eric Cantona made his stage debut by playing a dying man half-buried in a collapsed building in Face au Paradis (Facing Paradise), a new two-hander play written by Nathalie Saugeon and directed by his wife Rachida Brakni.

A crowd of 320 was appreciative as shouts of “Bravo!” that came as the final curtain fell after 90 minutes of the French-language play that is all dialogue and no action.

Cantona was in no doubt that his theatre debut was somewhat of a gamble.

“My aim as a kid was to play my part in front of 80,000 people and I did it,” he told Le Monde newspaper.

“So a 400-seat theatre… If you don’t put yourself in danger, you don’t know yourself.”

Director Rachida Brakni chose the play especially to suit her husband.

“Eric is a worker, he’s not afraid by a challenge, by the theatre and the public. He has big qualities, he has a lot of talent,” she said.

“And it’s not the woman who loves him who said it, it’s the director.”

Fans were proud of the effort he put in, indicating that it was the same as he had brought on the football pitch.

“He’s brought to the theatre the same passion he brought to football,” said a thrilled Zihi Shokri, a 35-year-old hotel worker, who watched the show wearing a football jersey with the name “Cantona” emblazoned on the back.

Cantona hopes his debut stage role is the first step in a career in which he will one day play Shakespeare’s King Lear. ”But I’m still a little young for that.”

Face au Paradis (Facing Paradise) will run for the next three months in Paris.

Cantona presents award to Loach

Linus — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:47 +0000

Spotted at: Essen, Germany
on Friday, 11 December
For: a film gala in honour of Ken Loach, recipient of the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cantona at British Grand Prix

Linus — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:23:22 +0000

Cantona was spotted at the F1 British Grand Prix yesterday.

Taking photos with rock group Kasabian, he even signed a T-shirt for Spanish driver Fernando Alonso ahead of the race at Silverstone.

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Fans get kick to see Cantona in the flesh

Linus — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:00:40 +0000

Cantona arrived at the Light House Cinema in Dublin yesterday for the Irish premiere of Looking for Eric, a film made by the director Ken Loach.

Hundreds of Manchester United fans, some of whom weren’t born by the time Cantona had retired, turned up for the premiere chanting the familiar refrain “Ooh-ah, Cantona” and waving those blue, white and red flags with Cantona’s image in the middle.

“It still a surprise for me, especially the young who weren’t born. Maybe they like me as an actor, no?” said Cantona, wearing a thick beard as befits the image of the footballer turned philosopher. Cantona indulged them all signing autographs and a scooter with his image on it owned by United fanatic Matt Farrell.

Source: The Irish Times

Looking for Eric in Salford

Linus — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:11:26 +0000

Eric Cantona was given a hero’s welcome at the UK premiere of Looking for Eric last night.

The premiere was in Salford, where over a hundred fans awaited his arrival to cheer him on.

Looking for Eric is a movie directed by Ken Loach, about a postman Eric, who turns to his hero Cantona for inspiration as his life spirals out of control. Cantona plays himsel

Before the screening at the Vue Cinema in Salford Quays, Cantona said: “It’s a way of sharing with people the wonderful time I had here as a player.” It is released on June 12.

Spotted: Cannes Film Festival

Linus — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:36:05 +0000