# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-cantona
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:41:44.562Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-cantona"
name: "Eric Cantona"
slug: "eric-cantona"
description: "Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona is a French actor and former professional footballer. In his football career, Cantona was a physically strong and technically skilful player with both creative and goalscoring ability. Mostly utilised as a deep-lying forward, he was also capable of playing as a centre-forward, as a dedicated striker, as an attacking midfielder, or as a central midfielder. Regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players in 2004."
tagline: "French footballer and actor (born 1966)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eric_Cantona_Cannes_2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1966-05-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           77.35
  momentum:             10
  historical:           29.896116
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  82
  category: 80
totalFollowers: 7200
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0134642/"
    handle:    "nm0134642"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWav-3zH7AkKsQS5_OCN9GA"
    handle:    "@ericcantona418"
    followers: 7200
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    title: "Eric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "إيريك كانتونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "এরিক কাঁতোয়াঁ"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اریک کانتونا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Éric Cantona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "אריק קאנטונה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "एरिक कैंटोना"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eric_Cantona"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump