Last night I watched a 2006 documentary called Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos. In it Carlos Alberto Torres, whoose goal against Italy in the final of World Cup 1970 is considered one of the greatest goals ever scored in the history of the tournament, appears advocating the party lifstyle of the modern football star saying "Every Monday night, they had a party at studio 54... this was part of the development of football in the United States." Watching this documentary mad me ask the question which footballer has had the best cameos and key permorfances in film history. Also who are the worst offender in this category.
When talking about football movie stars my mind imediately turns to Vinnie Jones and Eric Cantona. Vinnie Jones has made his name for playing hard man camoes in many film, in his roles in Lock, Stock and Two Smocking Barrels and X-Men: The Last Stand he has been given very emotinal deep roles, with lines like "Get me out of here, I gotta pee". Eric Cantona took some scting lessons during the time he had off after drop kicking a fan at Selhurst Park. He made his debut in the 1998 film Elizabeth has gone on to better roles with the 2008 movie Being Eric in which he is very good in my opinion although he does play himself.
I don't think any player comes close to Cantona in terms of playing a key role well, but there are many footballer of the time which have had cameos. Pele and Bobby Moore, to name a few from Escape to Vitcory, Alan Hansen lends some of his punditry to Bend It Like Beckham. But the best Cameo has to go to David Beckham but not for Bend It Like Beckham but for his cameo in the 2005 film Goal! in which him talks to the main character at the end of the film saying "Congratulations, you were amazing today." But the worst cameo has to be by former Sunderland, Liverpool and Newcastle player Barry Venison in the 2001 film Mike Bassett: England Manager in which he is TV pundit something he is not good at in real life.
I would like to here your opinions on fooballers in film if you have any.
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