October 2018 THE QUARTERLY MAGAZINE OF STREETFOOTBALLWORLD PARTNER HIGHLIGHT EA SPORTS: NEW PLAYER IN THE FIELD p. 18 ERIC THE THIRD HALF DISCOVER THE WORLD, CHANGE LIVES CANTONA: p. 20 “MY DREAM WAS TO BECOME FOOTBALL4GOOD & PHOTOGRAPHY A FOOTBALLER, BUT I KNEW AUSTIN GROUNDS, THAT I WOULD DO SOMETHING HOW A DUMP SITE BECAME A SAFE SPACE FOR CHILDREN ELSE AFTER THAT.” by Sebastian Gil Miranda p. 6 p. 60 www.streetfootballworld.org Published by streetfootballworld gGmbH Waldenserstr. 2–4 10551 Berlin, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 30 7800 6240 [email protected] www.streetfootballworld.org Editor-in-Chief Elvira González-Vallés Copy Editor Nadia Convery Writers Nadia Convery Elvira González-Vallés Contributors Andrew Wisniewski Alasdair McTernan IMPRINT Paris Sacorafos Joana Vilela As long as I can remember, football has played a This work is licensed under the Creative Somarey Tim leading role in my life. 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MY DREAM WAS TO BECOME A FOOTBALLER, BUT I KNEW THAT I WOULD DO SOMETHING ELSE AFTER THAT. Eric Cantona, Football Legend & Common Goal Mentor SPOTLIGHT Eric Cantona: An In-Depth Interview All the world’s a football pitch And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts… 6 7 SPOTLIGHT Eric Cantona: An In-Depth Interview “Ooh, ahh, Can-to-naa” echoes through the pulsating crowds of football enthusiasts. Even today, over 20 years after the subject of this chant left the stage of professional football to take on other roles, Eric Cantona is tightly woven into the fabric of football like few other professionals – past and present. The former star footballer is a man who has indeed played many parts throughout his life – whether on or off the pitch; whether taking his teams to victory with technical prowess and fierce determination or posing as a candidate for the French Presidency in 2012 to raise a flag about the country’s housing plight, one of the many social issues the 52-year-old has taken a stand on. We meet Eric in his current home city Lisbon where he recounts his journey kicking “everything that looked like a ball” growing up in Marseille, turning his football pastime into passion and profession, rising to the peak of his career at Old Trafford, retiring at the young age of 30 to pursue other projects, while retaining his love of the sport, and how he today hopes to shape the future of the game in his newly acquired role of Mentor for Common Goal. 8 9 SPOTLIGHT Eric Cantona: An In-Depth Interview remember exactly. But I played in a team players moving around you and you have the ball you need to know exactly what that was so good, we won all the games to move around the players, so physically you will do with it and not start to think 6-0. I never touched the ball, just waited you need to be fit, really fit and the harder when you receive the ball. And during all week to play football and I just watched you work in training the more you can my career it was exactly the same, I my friends scoring goals. I wanted to play enjoy the game. anticipated what would happen after up front and score goals. Then I changed football. And the players should anticipate from a goalkeeper to striker, I started You retired from professional football it, they should be prepared. to score goals, we kept winning games in 1997, just before your 31st birthday. and then we won the championship in On JOE’s ‘Unfiltered’ podcast you told Though you say you were lucky to have our district. At age 12, I started to play in James O’Brien that it was because you other passions, were they sometimes a selections, selections of district. I started had lost your passion for the game. distraction when you were still playing to play in the selection and then I started How did that happen? professionally? to play for the league and then for the Before my career as a footballer, I loved Sometimes, when I was a player I had to national team at 15. When you start to football. My dream was to become a concentrate very hard on football because play in the selection, you can see that all footballer, but I knew that I would do my mind went to other things. I said: ‘No, the scouts, the recruiting staff from the something else after that. I think the no, I have to concentrate on the game’, professional clubs, they come to see all priority was to play football first, because even sometimes the day before the game, the players and then I started to think you finish your football career at the age the night before the game or the morning about being a professional. of 30, 35, and then you have plenty of time before the game, I was thinking about to do things. I have been lucky to have In the book ‘Cantona on Cantona’ you many passions. I knew for a long time that say: “No matter what the situation, I would do something else after football, I always think I have a chance of I was prepared to do something else. But winning.” Starting out as a professional this is not the case for all footballers. footballer, were you always this confident – and competitive? I think that an important It was a long time ago… but I think we thing in life - in football and in life - don’t change a lot. From when I was a kid until now, if I play cards I want to win, I is anticipation play pétanque, I want to win and when I was 10 it was exactly the same. I hated We should prepare the footballers, to lose. I play against the idea of losing. who don’t have other passions besides I think we are all competitive, all the football, for their life after they retire. people who become professional, they are We should prepare them, because it’s competitive.