"Im a Legend": Èric Cantona / "Soy Leyenda"
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With 82 goals and nine titles dressed in red, Eric Cantona became a Manchester United idol, but the kick he hit Matthew Simmons - whom he disparagingly calls \"the hooligan\" - made him a football legend. Yes, a kick… and what a kick! It was in Selhurst Park, the home of the Crystal Palace, on January 25, 1995 - 26 years old today.\r\nIt was a spicy match. And Cantona was receiving more fouls than usual: \"No yellow cards?\" Protested referee Alan Wilkie. Minutes later, the referee showed that he had taken the cards. And they were for the French forward, who saw the red after a blow to Richard Shaw at 4 minutes of the second half.\r\nOnce expelled, Cantona lowered the collar of his shirt - the one he wore raised - like someone who takes off his clothes once he finishes his work. And on the way to the locker room he heard the words that boiled his bloo
😛\"Go to France, you French son of a bitch.\" Simmons had gone down several steps and was in the front row. And Eric went straight to meet him with a kung fu kick that went down in history.\r\n\r\n“If I had met that guy another day, things could have happened very differently, even if he had said the exact same thing. Life is that strange, ”Cantona explained years later. And far from regretting what he did, he ranked that moment as one of the best of his career: “Kicking a fascist is not savored every day; I regret not having hit him harder ”.\r\nFascist? It is that after that day the press began to investigate Simmons\'s life and discovered that he had participated in extreme right-wing acts and that he defined himself as racist. In addition, he had a conviction for attempted robbery at a service station in 1992. And then, in 2006, he added a new altercation: he beat up a Fulham children\'s coach for leaving his son out.\r\nThe first media reaction to Cantona was repudiation, but others applauded the fact.\r\nBut other voices began to gain relevance, especially when some details of Simmons\' life were made public. The fans of the Red Devils supported him. Nike put him as the protagonist of an advertisement: \"I want to apologize for my mistakes: last year, in 5-0 against City, I only scored one goal,\" he joked in front of cameras. And even Arsenal legend Ian Wright said he was \"jealous.\" It was not just the goals that made him a legen
😛it was a flying kick\r\n\r\n
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😛“Quiero disculparme por mis errores: el año pasado, en el 5-0 contra el City, solo anoté un gol”, bromeó frente a cámaras. Y hasta Ian Wright, leyenda del Arsenal, dijo que se sentía “celoso”. Es que no eran solo los goles lo que lo convertían en leyenda: era una patada voladora.\r\n\r\n
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Pole! Un grande Cantoná, todavía me acuerdo de esa patada, pelea mano a mano con la de el Gato Sessa
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jejeje...
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V+C+E+S 🙂
Plato deserves that kick
Esa es!
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Prefiero el City, MU son muy comunistas.
MU obreros del cárbon
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