After hosts Sweden snapped Germany's run to a second straight title in 1958, France played the German team, led by coach Sepp Herberger, and French striker Just Fontaine scored a poker in his route to thirteen goals in the competition, the record for more goals in a single tournament ever, and France took third place in the 1958 World Cup with a 6-3 victory over Germany.
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This is Germany's second-worst defeat under the World Cup umbrella but probably is not it most painful, since it was for a third-place spot.
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