Maurice Lafont (13 September 1927 – 8 April 2005) was a
French
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football
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defender. He was part of the
France national team during the
1958 FIFA World Cup
The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the sixth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country.
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tournament and obtained four international caps, all of which came in that same year.
Honours
International
France
*
FIFA World Cup Third Place:
1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
External links
Player statistics at the French Football Federation's official web site
1927 births
2005 deaths
French men's footballers
France men's international footballers
Men's association football defenders
1958 FIFA World Cup players
Nîmes Olympique players
Grenoble Foot 38 players
SC Toulon players
Montpellier HSC players
French football managers
LB Châteauroux managers
AS Cherbourg Football managers
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