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rance football great Just Fontaine has died, aged 89.
Fontaine scored 30 goals in 21 games for Les Blues between 1953-1960.
The striker still holds the record of goals in a single World Cup by scoring a remarkable 13 across the 1958 tournament as France reached the semi-finals in Sweden.
ontaine spent most of his career at Reims, where he scored 122 goals in 131 games, winning Ligue 1 three times and the French FA Cup once. The club reached the European Cup final in 1959, with Fontaine as the competition’s top scorer, but lost to the all-conquering Real Madrid side.
He earlier played for Nice, where he won his first Ligue 1 title and Coupe de France. He was forced to retired aged 28 due to injury.
Fontaine turned to management soon after, coaching France for two friendly games, earning promotion to the top flight while in charge of Paris Saint-Germain and finishing third at the Africa Cup of Nations with Morocco in his final job.