•  Just Fontaine has died at 89 years old
  • The previous France striker holds the record for the most objectives scored at a solitary FIFA World Cup™
  • His accomplishments in world football will always be recalled



While it is in many cases said that records are there to be beaten, the reality stays that the one for most objectives scored at a solitary FIFA World Cup™ has represented completely 65 years and looks prone to stay unbeaten for quite a while yet.


Tragically, the one who set that standard, incredible France striker Just Fontaine, died on Wednesday 1 Walk at 89 years old.


“My record is still standing,” said the former frontman in 2002. “I think I’ll take it with me to my grave.”

It was a forecast that ended up being right. Brought into the world in 1933 in the Moroccan city of Marrakech, to a French dad and a Spanish mother, Fontaine was 20 when he moved to France to play for OGC Decent. His count of 53 objectives in 82 coordinates with the southern club pulled in the consideration of Stade Reims, a force to be reckoned with in the French game at that point, and the France group. Somewhere in the range of 1953 and 1960, Justo scored a momentous 31 objectives in only 21 appearances for Les Bleus, an eye-getting return that owed a lot to a rich vein of structure on the greatest phase of all. In addressing France at the 1958 FIFA World Cup Sweden™, the frontman scored a fantastic 13 objectives, more than some other player at a solitary release of the competition previously or since. The scorer of four objectives against West Germany in the counterpart for third spot, Fontaine likewise struck a full go-around against Paraguay, supports against Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and an objective each against Brazil and Scotland. Talking in 2014, he reviewed with a grin his physical issue impacted his move toward the World Cup: "I had a procedure on my meniscus on 7 December and I was back playing again on 15 February. I did how I needed to return and by June I was strolling on water, similar to Jesus." Surprisingly, he accomplished his record-breaking accomplishment in another person's boots, having broken down his last pair at France's last instructional course before making a beeline for Sweden. "We were given only two sets of boots at that point and no support. I was left with nothing," he made sense of. Luckily, save striker Stephane Bruey was a similar shoe size and acted the hero by crediting Fontaine his. "A portion of my objectives were roused by consolidating two spirits inside a similar boot," the Bleus legend jumped at the chance to review. Beaten in the semis by Brazil, France needed to satisfy themselves with the bronze award. "I immediately disregarded my own presentation," he once said. "I like to zero in on our third spot and not me starting things out. At that point, no one thought often that much about the top scorer." While that might be valid, his accomplishment lives on such an extremely long time later. In honoring Fontaine, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said: "It is with extraordinary bitterness that we have learned of the death of Just Fontaine. Simply a symbol of the game and his surprising presentation in 1958 solidified his heritage as one of the best FIFA World Cup players ever. To score a record 13 objectives in a solitary FIFA World Cup - right up to the present day - is something that has never been coordinated. The imprint he made on world football will be perpetually recalled and the record, potentially, never be bettered. My most profound sympathies are to Simply's friends and family at this troublesome time. Find happiness in the hereafter." Maybe somebody will go along and overshadow the incomparable Fontaine's astounding record one day. However regardless of whether they, his spot in the set of experiences books and the hearts of football sweethearts all around the world are secure.