1 year ago
61
Just Fontaine scored 30 goals successful conscionable 31 appearances for France betwixt 1953 and 1960Just Fontaine, who holds the grounds for the astir goals scored astatine a azygous World Cup, has died astatine the property of 89.
Fontaine scored 13 goals successful conscionable six matches for France astatine the 1958 World Cup successful Sweden arsenic his broadside finished third.
He is joint-fourth connected the all-time World Cup goalscorers database alongside Argentina's Lionel Messi.
Fontaine spent overmuch of his vocation astatine Stade de Reims, wherever helium scored 145 goals successful 152 appearances.
His vocation was chopped abbreviated by wounded successful 1960 erstwhile Fontaine enjoyed stints arsenic a manager astatine Paris St-Germain, Toulouse and Morocco, wherever the guardant was calved earlier switching allegiance to France.
In 2004 Fontaine was named connected Brazil fable Pele's database of the125 top surviving footballers.
More to follow.
English (US)