Eric Cantona’s fav. moment
The following clip was taken from Ken Loach’s film ‘Looking for Eric’. This particular clip shows Steve Evets, the depressive postman who conjures up his hero, Eric Cantona, to help him turn his life around, asks Cantona about his favorite moment.
Yup, his favorite moment was a pass and not the goals he has scored. ‘It wasn’t a goal. It was a pass’ – a pass to Denis Irwin with the outside of his boot against Spurs, which leads to a goal.
Football is one of the sports where great examples of how a group of people working together and trusting each other can achieve the best of results. It’s all about teamwork, if you can’t communicate with your team mates, no matter how best you perform a task, getting to that goal will be hard as obstacles after obstacles will be there to block you.
Be humble, trust in your team mate and work together to achieve the goal. Believe me, the taste of victory at the end will taste ever much sweeter than you doing it alone. But of course the message isn’t that simple, it’s also about taking the risk. it’s the unexpected that causes the greatest impact in your life – perhaps a moment where you dared to take a risk and it came off, and then you remember it for ever as a life-changing decision because you know you could have taken the safer option. But if you had, your life would have been the poorer somehow.
Like King Eric said towards the end of the clip: ‘You have to trust your team-mates’. A wonderful definition of the team ethic.
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From “Cantona scores at Cannes”
Reuters via The Independent
Monday, 18 May 2009
Loach’s longtime scriptwriter Paul Laverty said he had spent two days with Cantona to get to know the player before writing his part and had asked him what his favourite memory of his playing career had been.
“I was convinced it was going to be some cracking goal but then Eric said, no it was a pass and that was a real, real gift and it became part of the package of the whole story,” he said.
The filmmakers could not find footage of the pass to teammate Ryan Giggs, but another, delivered by Cantona to set up a goal by Denis Irwin, is among several clips from the player’s career shown in the film.
“The best things we do, we do as a team,” said Loach, a longtime football fan.
But he was wary about combining sport and film too closely.
“In the game, you go from despair to hope to triumph to sadness to elation within an hour and three quarters. If a film could achieve that it would be some film, I tell you.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/cantona-scores-at-cannes-1687107.html