Fontaine's 13 goals in six games for France at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden is a goalscoring record unlikely to be bettered.
Yet the Moroccan-born striker, who began his playing career with Marrakesh, was not even a regular French international before the tournament and only got his opportunity alongside Raymond Kopa because of an untimely injury to his Rheims teammate Rene Bliard.
Fontaine and Kopa struck up an immediate understanding, with the Real Madrid playmaker laying on chance after chance for the goal-hungry Fontaine. He scored a hat trick in France's 7-3 opening match win over Paraguay, two more in its loss to Yugoslavia and the deciding goal in a 2-1 win over Scotland that earned France a place in the quarterfinals.
Two more followed as Northern Ireland was crushed 4-0, and Fontaine was again on target as France went out against Brazil 5-2 in the semifinals. Finally, in the third place playoff Fontaine scored four in a 6-3 demolition of West Germany.
Fontaine's 13 goals were more than Pele and Helmut Rahn, the next two names on the scoring list, scored together. Sadly his career was cut short by injury in 1961 at the age of 27, due to injury.
