FIFA: Free-scoring Fontaine’s enduring record (50) | 100 great World Cup moments

 

As we count down to he start of the global showpiece in Qatar on 20 November, FIFA+ is showcasing 100 of the greatest moments in FIFA World Cup history. Records are made to be broken and almost all of them fall sooner or later. But one goalscoring landmark, set by France’s Just Fontaine, has been standing for 64 years now and looks increasingly unlikely to be eclipsed. The striker set the record in helping himself to 13 goals across six matches at the 1958 FIFA World Cup Sweden™, more than anyone has ever scored at a single global finals. The Marrakesh-born Stade de Reims forward struck four against defending champions West Germany, hit a hat-trick against Paraguay, bagged braces in the matches with Yugoslavia and Northern Ireland, and scored a goal apiece against Brazil and Scotland. 

 

What perhaps makes his already-incredible record even more remarkable is that Sweden 1958 was Fontaine’s first, and only, World Cup. Only Miroslav Klose (16), Ronaldo (15) and Gerd Muller (14) have scored more goals at the global finals – and all needed two or more editions of the competition to do it.

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