I took it as a dig at the venality of football authorities, and shallow players who don't publicly show concern for the common good of the game & society.
It’s interesting when he says ‘who are we to the Gods’, because who are ‘the Gods?’ In a football context, one would often look to stars like Messi and Ronaldo as ‘the Gods of the game’, and Cantona himself was nicknamed ‘Dieu’ by the fans. Yet, in a FIFA or UEFA setting, it rather points towards the people making the decisions, the powerful people in the perhaps corrupt Organisations, and the Money wielders from Quatar, China and the US, the recent documentary of Diego Maradona shows how he was more like a fly than a god when push came to shove. And then he invokes the contects of we as humans - both the flies getting swatted by old age and wars, and at the same time ourselves the Gods creating eternal life and wars, accidents and criminality.
Platini was a French football ‘god’ who then ascended to the real Olympus of the UEFA leadership, before criminality (his own and others’ brought him down.
I think Cantona points towards that after ‘God is dead’ as Nietzsche said’, when we in football and society create our own godheads and omniootents, and are unchecked by higher moral values (like joga bonito), it all becomes a back scratching cirkus of nice, politically correct and corruptly rich people, like Edmund the son of Gloucester, and Goneril and Regan, the treacherous daughters of the King.
To put it short, not too far from what you said, but also more complex.
And what does ‘I love football’ mean?