[MY VIEW] The New York Cosmos’ announcement that Eric Cantona was joining the prospective club as director of soccercertainly had its effect. I was awoken early in the morning here in California to calls from French radio stations wanting to know what I thought about Cantona and the “nouveau Cosmos.” I would havesooner expected to hear Cantona — an accomplished actor — was headed to Broadway than he was hired to handle soccer for the Cosmos.

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