Former France football The good Simply Fontaine, who scored a report 13 objectives on the 1958 World Cup, has died.
Fontaine, 89, netted 30 objectives from 21 caps for France between 1953-1960.
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In 1958, he was instrumental in Les Bleus reaching the semi-finals in Sweden.
A prolific striker with 259 objectives from 283 matches in his membership profession, Fontaine was one of many key gamers of the nice Stade de Reims workforce who reached the European Cup closing in 1959.
Reims, who received three French high flight titles with Fontaine, misplaced 2-Zero to Actual Madrid however ‘Justo’ ended up because the competitors’s high scorer with 10 objectives.
“A star of French soccer, an excellent striker, a legendary Reims participant… To his household… Stade de Reims ship their most honest condolences,” Reims wrote on Twitter.
“A thought for Simply Fontaine,” French champions Paris St Germain wrote on Twitter.
As a coach, Fontaine helped PSG achieve promotion to the primary division in 1974.
Brazil beat Sweden 5–2 within the 1958 closing in Solna, Stockholm, to say their first title, having crushed Fontaine’s France within the semi-final and Wales within the quarter-final.
The event additionally marked the arrival of a then 17-year-old Pelé on the world stage, who scored in all three of Brazil’s knockout video games.
