Just Louis Fontaine Death – Louis Fontaine, a French professional footballer has died. He was a prolific striker, but his thirteen goals in six games at the 1958 FIFA World Cup are what made him famous. He passed away in Toulouse, France on March 1st, 2023. At a FIFA Awards Ceremony in March of 2004, Pelé called him one of the 125 Greatest Living Footballers. Fontaine attended the Lycée Lyautey after being born in Marrakech to a French father and a Spanish mother.
About Just Louis Fontaine
As a result of his injuries, Fontaine had to retire from playing in July 1962, when he was only 28 years and 11 months old. In 1967, he served as the manager of the French national team for just two defeating friendlies before being replaced. With the help of players like Badou Zaki, Mohammed Timoumi, and Aziz Bouderbala, he guided Morocco to a third-place finish at the 1980 African Cup of Nations as head coach of the Atlas Lions. In 1982, Morocco qualified for the World Cup, but they lost to Cameroon in the last round.
He led Paris Saint-Germain F.C. to the top flight of French soccer as the club’s sports director. In March of 2004, Pelé ranked Fontaine as one of the 125 greatest active football players. Fontaine spent his first four years of amateur ball at USM Casablanca (1950–1953). The French club Nice signed him in 1953, and he spent three years there scoring 44 goals.
He joined Raymond Kopa at Stade de Reims in the 1959–60 season after moving there in 1956. Throughout the course of six seasons at Stade de Reims, Fontaine scored 121 goals. In 200 games played for his Ligue 1 team, Fontaine scored 165 goals and won the title twice (1958, 1960). In addition, he helped lead his team to the European Cup championship game against Real Madrid in 1958–59, when he scored 10 goals. The French Football Federation named him the best French player of the last half-century during the 2003 UEFA Jubilee Awards, held in November.
When he and Eugène N’Jo Léa established the National Union of Professional Football Players in 1961, they had a hand in its early success. He was critical of the French team’s play at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, focusing on the forwards’ lackluster performance. On March 1, 2023, at the age of 89 years old, Fontaine passed away.
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