Just Fontaine, French legend, has died

THE footballer of legend, Just Fontaine died at 89, Wednesday 1^er March. “They gave me money to play football idiots!”specified the player to L’Equipe, about his signing in Nice in 1953. He had created the first union of footballers (UNFP) in 1961. What can we learn from the immense career of Just Fontaine? These 13 goals in six games in world Cup, in 1958 in Sweden. With the first great epic of a French team which stops in the semi-finals against Brazil.

PSG coach

In an age where football has become ultra-individualised, where players think about individual stats and awards, Just Fontaine didn’t care. After his career, which ended early at the age of 28 yearsJust Fontaine became the short-lived coach of the France team and then of Paris Saint-Germain in 1973. He retired to his home in Toulouse (Haute-Garonne), specifies the journalist from France Télévisions, Samuel Ollivier.