The legend of French and world football dies

2023-03-01 12:59:59 / SPORT ALFA PRESS

The legend of French and world football dies

Just Fontaine, the former legend of French football, died this Wednesday at the age of 89, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Fontaine, who was born in Morocco but has represented France internationally, still holds the record for the top goalscorer at a World Cup, scoring 13 goals in 1958 in Sweden, playing for Casablanca, Nice and Reims before to quit football at the age of 28, in a career plagued by injuries.

For the French national team, he added 21 matches, in which he scored a total of 30 goals. After the death of the Brazilian legend Pele, world football also lost Just Fontaine, the legendary scorer of the World Cup.

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