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Just Fontaine
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Just Fontaine

1933 – 2023 · aged 90

French football player and manager (1933-2023)

Born
18 Aug 1933 · Marrakech
Died
28 Feb 2023 · Toulouse
Part ofMorocco789 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 18 Aug 1933BornBorn in Marrakech
  2. 1950 – 1953TeamUS Marocaine Casablanca
  3. 1953 – 1960TeamFrance men's national association football team
  4. 1953 – 1956TeamOGC Nice
  5. 1956 – 1962TeamStade de Reims
  6. 1958Took part1958 FIFA World Cup
  7. 2013AwardOfficer of the Legion of Honour
  8. 28 Feb 2023DiedDied in Toulouse

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1933 – 2023).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  24. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  26. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  27. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  28. 1968Prague Spring
  29. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  30. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  31. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  32. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  34. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  35. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  36. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  37. 1985Schengen Agreement
  38. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  39. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  40. 19901990 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Just Louis Fontaine (French pronunciation: [ʒyst fɔ̃.tɛn]; 18 August 1933 – 28 February 2023) was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He holds the record for the most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches at the 1958 tournament.

In March 2004, Pelé named him one of his 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony.

Text from the Wikipedia article Just Fontaine, CC BY-SA 4.0

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