Eric Cantona Interview: United President offer, Sir Alex, Beckham & Qatar
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4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Premier League legend Eric Cantona sits down with The Athletic's Adam Crafton to discuss a range of topics including his offer to become President of Manchester United, his relationship with Sir Alex Ferguson, his thoughts on David Beckham's promotion of the World Cup in Qatar the possibility of World War and his connection with England.
Eric also shares the inspiration behind that iconic goal celebration, that kick and why he is both humble & arrogant.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic Hello, I'm Ian Irving and coming up. What a treat we have for you because the Athletics, Adam Crafton, has been in conversation with arguably the most charismatic footballer in the history of the Premier League. It's a former Manchester United Captain and French star, Eric Cantanar. |
| 0:29.1 | Do you regret either what happened against Crystal Palace? |
| 0:30.3 | No, I don't regret anything. |
| 0:35.7 | Last year, I proposed to the club to be president of football. |
| 0:37.1 | For you to be? |
| 0:37.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:42.4 | I know you've spoken about the World Cup in Kato. |
| 0:45.1 | David Beckham, for example, as an ambassador. |
| 0:46.7 | Was that something you would do? |
| 0:48.7 | I will not do it at all. |
| 1:01.5 | Can you imagine that ultra- can become a new stadium called by a brand? |
| 1:08.0 | If one day they do that, I'm sorry, but I'm not a fan of Surve United anymore. |
| 1:10.4 | And I quit football forever. Yeah, so much for you to look forward to in this interview. Absolutely. Kantonaro and being encouraged by Sir Alex Ferguson to be United's president of football, the upcoming World Cup, including David Beckham's role in promoting it, plus World War. It wouldn't be a chat with Eric without covering all bases now, would it? |
| 1:32.6 | Adam, Crafton's with us now. Adam, before we get into the interview and we talk to you about it all, |
| 1:37.1 | how on earth did you end up sipping red wine in Casablanca with Eric Cantanar? |
| 1:44.5 | Yeah, it's like totally surreal. This was basically all because Eric is now running a travel company. |
| 1:47.6 | He calls it like a passion-based travel company, which is called Looking for FC, |
| 1:50.7 | a sport-based, a football-based travel concept. |
| 1:53.7 | It launched in January this year. |
| 1:55.8 | As a result, he was filming for a day in Casablanca |
| 1:59.6 | kind of promotional materials for this looking for FC travel |
| 2:04.5 | brand and they got in touch with us and said, would you like to spend an hour chatting to |
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