French rebel

The legendary striker Eric Canton on May 24 turns 55 years old

They say that there are no former football players, like former scouts. I will not argue. But in every rule there are exceptions. You won’t believe it, but the one who in the 90s in a T-shirt under the seventh number with a invariably raised collar gave crazy performances on green lawns, today is not even aware of the current results of his native Manchester United. The owner of the "bronze ball", excuse me, is to the light bulb. As, in fact, and all English fun.

And for me personally it is not surprising. Such as Canton, the game 11x11 is interesting as long as they are in the center of events and create themselves. "And what is it?" - You ask. Not obsessed with one football. For little Eric, the Father's art workshop was the same magical country as a clearing with a gate. And the canvases of Van Gogh, Kamuana and Shabo caused a delight no less than the Fints of Tigan and Platini. The boy, for whom Pierre Ambrozhyan's favorite schedule was the strongest shock (the reproduction of his drawing with the views of Marseille traveled with Eric in all clubs), went on weekends to art galleries and was torn between brushes and a spotted ball. Already as a professional player, he could slow down at the hotel on the path to training, get a suitcase with paints from the trunk and forget himself in front of the canvas. “Pursuing painting, I seemed to be meditating. The world ceased to exist and narrowed to the size of the picture that I am writing, ”admitted Canton, who believed that in football everyone and everything were tuned against him.

And it really was so to a certain extent. France hated a monster who lived in a quiet and loving loneliness to the artist.

Getting angry, the black -haired Eric Daniel Pierre could go to the most dangerous tackle or just throw Butsu into the lobbye to the classmate.

The canton will receive a one -year disqualification, calling the coach of the national team of Henri Michel, the “shit bag”, and Olympic will sell the unrestrained bun in “him” after he, in the “torpedo” match, is dissatisfied with the replacement, will abandon the torn T -shirt in the coach of the hive. In the deposit town, the skillful demon continued to hooligate: at first he heeded the judge who removed him from the field, and then called the members of the disciplinary committee of the Federation with idiots, earned a total of 120 days of “freedom” from football. And at the age of 22, the champion of youth euros, which replaced six clubs because of his character, will decide to end his career to the joy of the public, tired of his extracts. But the rash PAS in Offside was prevented by the sympathized by the rude renovate Michel Platini. He will convince Eric to reload at the foggy Albion and will literally force Lids manager Bill Fotherbi to invite an indifferent striker to Elland Road.

The legionnaire attached his leg to the gold of the “peacocks” in 1992, giving them a super-cap (the Frenchman’s hat-trip to the goal of Liverpool in the final match, Lidsa fans still remember), and for a million pounds went to Manchester United, where he turned into a real violent king.

He simultaneously promoted the “Red Devils”, who had dreamed of championship for 26 years, and just created by the Premier League, which did not have enough such a frantic bull. “Eric was in the right club at the right time,” Sir Alex Ferguson writes in his autobiography, who did not pay attention to the quirks of a beginner who torn the island conservative templates. In pubs, he ordered champagne instead of beer, he came in slap and robe for official events, criticized his colleagues for acquiring expensive mansions and cars ( he settled in a small house . - A. U. ), and freak out for any reason. However, on the emerald lawns, an avid theater and expert on Mozart’s work went out exclusively. May the fans of Messi and Ronaldo will not be offended by me, but the Argentine and Portuguese today do not even closely have such a magnetic influence on their teams, arbitrators and spectators, which the charismatic, nickety giant, who inspired fear of rivals, had a murderous look. “The Frenchman possessed such an aura that next to him you felt invulnerable,” said his partner Steve Bruce.

Cantona looked like a legendary George Best. But if in the company with a showman out of the 60s it was impossible to play badly, then not to fight in the presence of Eric, with whom the Mankunians grabbed four titles in five seasons, was simply life-threatening.

And the current residents of the United Film Persistence, the anniversary, collecting red cards, would probably have busted right during the battle. Just as he sent to the Knight of the Crystal Palace to the knockout of the fan, which provoked and insulted him from the rostrum. Have you forgotten that blow in the Kung Fu style and control of the jaw?

At the same time, during the eight-month disqualification, Eric watched an art house movie and mastered the pipe, managed to flash in the comedy “Love in Lugs”, signed up for acting courses and even produced the play by Edward Olby “Who is afraid of Virginia Wulf”, bought the rights to produce it in France. By the way, in 2012 he will announce the desire to run for the presidency of the republic, and a little earlier he will call all Europeans to end the criminal and usury banking system, suggesting that one day close their accounts ...

... Having served the punishment, the intellectual aggressor does not care about a year and a half for the glory of Manchester United, will be the first foreign football player to raise the Cup of England over his head as a captain, and at the age of 30 he will be thrown into masquerade swimming, explaining that he was "tired of observing the stupid rules and early to go to bed."

It will shoot in more than fifty films, two of which will produce a real splash.

The role of a 160-kilogram policeman in the film “Gluttory” will make critics apologize for calling Canton Northern, and Ken Lawch’s picture “In search of Eric”, where the striker will play himself, nominated for the main prize of the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. By the way, then everyone started talking about the fact that a large father, who had fun at leisure beach football, supposedly was going to get the boots from the closet and return to Old Trafford. However, the film answered this question: in one of the episodes, the ball rolled to the hero, but he, thinking for a moment, steps over and goes on ...