La Président Erique Cantonah?

Football legend Eric Cantona wants to be in Presidency running in France.

The retired 45 year old striker has made 369 team appearances in total and scored 131 goals (64 goals in 144 Manchester United appearances) between 1983 and 1997. In his international career for the French team (1985-1995) he has scored 20 goals in 45 matches.

French Newspaper Libération detailed how Cantona wants to “carry a simple but clear message – a message of truth but of respect, a powerful message of solidarity”.

I am a concerned citizen. [...] I speak today more seriously than usual, but with a keen sense of my responsibility at a time when our country is in front of difficult choices and determining its future. 

That commitment makes me turn to you because you are in the public; you occupy a major role in the everyday life of your citizens, our fellow citizens; you are a strong link of trust in politicians, in the future our institutions, and social ties that you help to build day after day, month after month, year after year. 

If you give me your initials, I shall bring this powerful idea, with many others as determined as me, and I will do on your behalf.

To run in the election, candidates are required to pick up the nomination of 500 eligible elected officials, of which there are around 45,000 – with the majority of them mayors.

 

This is not the first time Cantona has attempted to make an impact in France and its government; in December 2010 he called for a global 'bank run' where people should withdraw their savings from a bank if they fear it will go bust.

 

All this one day after Paul Scholes comes out of retirement and helps Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-2 and dump them out of the FA Cup