How tall is Just Fontaine?

Just Fontaine's listed height was 174 cm (5'9"). He was taller than about 66% of men in France.

Where 174 cm sits among men in France

Taller than about 66% of men in France born in 1933 (average 171.2 cm).

Fontaine next to his teammates

Raymond Kopa is 6 cm shorter than Just Fontaine (168 cm), teammate at France men's national association football team from 1953 to 1960.

About Just Fontaine

Just Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He was born on 18 August 1933 in Marrakesh, French Morocco, to a French father and a Spanish mother. He began his amateur career at US Marocaine, where he played from 1950 to 1953.

Nice recruited Fontaine in 1953, and he scored 44 goals in three seasons there. In 1956 he moved to Stade de Reims, where he scored 121 goals in six seasons. He won the Division 1 championship twice, in 1958 and 1960. He was part of the Reims team that reached the 1958 to 1959 European Cup final against Real Madrid. For France he holds the record for most goals in a single FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in 1958. In 2004 Pelé named him among his 125 Greatest Living Footballers.

Fontaine stood at a listed 174 cm (5'9"), and was 6 cm taller than Raymond Kopa, listed at 168 cm (5'6"), his teammate for the France men's national association football team from 1953 to 1960. He died on 28 February 2023.

Frequently asked

How tall is Just Fontaine in feet and inches? Just Fontaine was 5'9" tall, which is 174 cm, 68.5 inches or 1.74 m.

How tall is Just Fontaine compared to Raymond Kopa? Raymond Kopa is 6 cm shorter than Just Fontaine: 168 cm (5'6") vs 174 cm (5'9").

Is Just Fontaine tall for men in France? At 174 cm he was taller than about 66% of men in France born in 1933, whose average height is 171.2 cm.

Sources

• Just Fontaine on Wikipedia — biography and career.
• Just Fontaine on Wikidata — nationality and dates; height recorded as 174 cm.
• Just Fontaine on TMDB — filmography and co-stars.

Heights are as publicly listed, rounded to the nearest centimetre; listed heights for public figures are often self-reported. Biographical details adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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