Just Fontaine

Just Fontaine
Personnel
birthday	August 18, 1933
place of birth	Marrakech ,  French Morocco
size	174 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1953	USM Casablanca	48 0(62)
1953-1956	OGC Nice	69 0(44)
1956-1952	Stade Reims	131 (122)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1953-1960	France	21 0(30)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1967	France
1968-1969	Bagneres-de-Luchon SP
1973-1976	Paris Saint-Germain
1978-1979	Toulouse FC
1979-1981	Morocco
1 Only league games are given.

Just Fontaine (born August 18, 1933 in Marrakech , French Morocco ) is a former French football player , coach and official.

Club career

Fontaine, who was mostly affectionately known as “Justo”, was a professional from 1949 to 1962. With football he started at US Marocaine Casablanca (1950-1953); then he moved to France , first playing for the OGC Nice (1953-1956) and then for Stade Reims (1956-1952). At this club he played (as in the national team) for several years with top-class offensive players ( Piantoni , Vincent and Bliard ) who scored between 80 and 90 goals per season in Division 1 , even in the year of Kopa's return (1959/60) 109 goals in 38 games. In France, Just Fontaine was four times champion and twice cup winners; he was also the top scorer twice in the top division . With Reims he was also in the final of the 1959 European Cup against Real Madrid .

When he wanted to move to Espanyol Barcelona in 1960 , he suffered a double broken leg from a serious foul by the Sochaux center forward Sékou Touré , from which he never really recovered despite several attempts. Two years later, just recovering, he broke his right leg again and ended his active career at the age of only 28.

At the end of 1961, the militant goalgetter was elected the first president of the French players' union UNFP , and he held this position until 1964. Fontaine was also the first French football player to record a record (the single "Vas-y Fontaine" and the LP "Just Fontaine chante Gil Bernard").

The French international

The striker was appointed a total of 21 times in the Équipe Tricolore between 1953 and 1960 ; He scored 30 goals, a fabulous average of 1.43 goals per game - four times he managed a "triple pack", once (at the 1958 World Cup in the game for third place against Germany) even four goals in one game. Just Fontaine also holds the goal record at a soccer world championship: at the finals in Sweden in 1958 , he achieved the record of 13 goals that is still valid today - although he only made it into the French team because his team-mate René Bliard from Reims was up front the World Cup had injured.

Although the final round of the 1958 World Cup was the only tournament in which he scored, he ranks only three goals behind the leader, Miroslav Klose , who has scored in four tournaments in the all -time World Cup scorer ranking .

The trainer

1962 Fontaine had to end his active career; he then completed his training as a trainer as the best of his year. In January 1967 he became the French national coach, but after two home defeats in friendly matches against Romania and the USSR he was replaced by Louis Dugauguez in July . He then coached Paris Saint-Germain for three years (1973-1976), with whom he rose to the top division in 1974, and Toulouse FC (1978/79). He was also the coach of the Moroccan national team in the early 1980s .

Then Just Fontaine , who was also awarded the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor and was named the fifth best French footballer of the century by the specialist magazine L'Équipe in 2000, devoted himself to his Justo Sport sporting goods stores. He also owns two Lacoste stores.

He lives in Toulouse . "I spend my days playing Belote , and I also watch the African Nations Cup , the Premier League , the Bundesliga, Serie A , La Liga ..." he said in 2011.

successes

As a player

• French champion : 1956 (with Nice), 1958, 1960 and 1962 (with Reims)
• French cup winner : 1954 (Nice), 1958 (Reims)
• Top scorer in France's top division: 1958, 1960 (and second best scorer in 1957 and 1959)
• Top scorer in the European Cup: 1959
• Appearances and goals scored in Division 1 : 200 games and 165 goals (69/43 for Nice, 131/122 for Reims)
• 21 full internationals, including one at Nice and 20 at Reims, with 30 goals
• World Cup third in 1958, there also World Cup top scorer (13 goals)
• Fontaine is also one of the best footballers of all time, the FIFA 100 , and in 2004 he was voted best French in the UEFA Jubilee 52 Golden Players

As a trainer

• National coach of France (1967, but the shortest reigning selectionneur of all time) and Morocco (1979–1981)

Awards

• FIFA Order of Merit 1994
• Officer of the Legion of Honor 2013

literature

Autobiographies

• Just Fontaine: Reprise de volée. Solar, unspecified 1970
• Just Fontaine: Mes 13 verités sur le foot. Solar, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-263-04107-9

Secondary literature

• Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978
• Pascal Grégoire-Boutreau / Tony Verbicaro: Stade de Reims - une histoire sans fin. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2001 ISBN 2-911698-21-5
• Michel Hubert / Jacques Pernet: Stade de Reims. Sa legend. Atelier Graphique, Reims 1992 ISBN 2-9506272-2-6
• L'Équipe (Ed.): Stade de Reims. Un club à la Une. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2006 ISBN 2-915535-41-8
• Lucien Perpère / Victor Sinet / Louis Tanguy: Reims de nos amours. 1931/1981 - 50 ans de Stade de Reims. Alphabet Cube, Reims 1981
• Jacques and Thomas Poncelet: Supporters du Stade de Reims 1935-2005. Self-published, Reims 2005 ISBN 2-9525704-0-X

Web links

• de.fifa.com: Just Fontaine: A top scorer in a class of its own

Notes and evidence

1. ^ Fédération Française de Football (ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o.O. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , p. 106
2. ↑ World Cup review: Just Fontaine still holds the record for the most goals scored in a single World Cup tournament. In: guinnessworldrecords.de. June 6, 2014, accessed September 7, 2015 . 
3. ^ Rob Smyth: [The forgotten story of ... Just Fontaine's 13-goal World Cup] , The Guardian , January 12, 2012.
4. ↑ List of FIFA Order of Merit recipients ( memento of the original from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on October 25, 2012 (PDF; 71 kB)