GERMANY - APRIL 09: FUSSBALL: CHAMPIONS LEAGUE/DORTMUND - MANCHESTER UNITED 1:0 am 9.4.97, Eric CANTONA (Photo by Bongarts/Getty Images)
Eric Cantona is now a film star after playing for Manchester United(Image credit: Getty Images)

Eric Cantona has enjoyed an ecletic life after retiring from professional football upon leaving Manchester United in 1997. He has captained the France national beach football team, been the director of soccer at New York Cosmos and, what he is now most well-known for, acted in a number of major films and adverts.

Justin Moorhouse, most famous for playing a Manchester City fan in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, appeared in the 2009 film Looking for Eric, a sports comedy-drama film directed by Ken Loach and featuring Eric Cantona that follows a middle-aged postman going through difficulties in his life.

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Ryan is a staff writer for FourFourTwo, joining the team full-time in October 2022. He first joined Future in December 2020, working across FourFourTwo, Golf Monthly, Rugby World and Advnture's websites, before eventually earning himself a position with FourFourTwo permanently. After graduating from Cardiff University with a degree in Journalism and Communications, Ryan earned a NCTJ qualification to further develop as a writer while a Trainee News Writer at Future.

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