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France win Foe final

AFP, Paris
A golden goal by Thierry Henry lifted France to a 1-0 victory over Cameroon in the Confederations Cup final on a night thick with emotion at the Stade de France here Sunday.
Henry's close-range finish with the ball bouncing off his knee in the seventh minute of extra time earned the hosts back-to-back titles in a competition that was jolted by Thursday's death of Cameroon international Marc-Vivien Foe.
France captain Marcel Desailly insisted on lifting the trophy jointly with Cameroon skipper Rigobert Song, a lifelong friend of Foe, in a gesture that summed up a remark-
able evening.
Both sides then came together for a lap of honour, carrying a lifesize photograph of Foe with them as the player's name rang around the stadium.
France coach Jacques Santini said: "This final feels somehow unfinished because of the circumstances it was played in.
"A family has lost a member and someone who was dear to us has gone forever.
"We had to learn how to win with several key players missing," he added, referring to the missing Zinedine Zidane. "This is going to give the younger players confidence and will make the older players more confident in the younger ones."
His opposite number, Winfried Schafer, said it was "absolutely right" to play the final.
"It was the wish of the team, Marc-Vivien's wife and me to play tonight," said the German coach.
"And it was a beautiful game, good for football and the fans.
"We wanted to win the Cup, Marc-Viven wanted to win it, and I'm proud of my team."
As a mark of respect to their absent teammate Cameroon discarded their traditional green and yellow colours for plain white with black armbands.
Foe's widow, Marie-Louise, and his brother were among the 52,000 crowd on hand to witness a match which Cameroon wanted to act as a poignant tribute to their fallen 'Indomitable Lion'.
The 28-year-old father of three collapsed and died in the 72nd minute of his country's semi-final win against Colombia in Lyon on Thursday.
Before the match, the two sides linked arms before the national anthems in the centre of the pitch to observe a minute's silence.
The Cameroon players had insisted on playing the final to honour Foe's memory and once the whistle blew, the match took on an energy of its own.
French skipper Marcel Desailly's first minute pot shot at Idris Keremi's goal dispelled any fears that this unique occasion might produce some kind of halfhearted impersonation of a football match.
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Henry, the new darling of the French terraces in Zidane's absence, had a low 16th minute shot scooped up safely by Idris Kameni.
The Arsenal star then crossed from the right to find Djibril Cisse who could have done better with an off-target header. Cisse was also out of luck with a half hour free kick attempt that went badly astray.
Deep into the first half Cameroon had the French defence well and truly on the rack yet hard as they tried they were unable to break Fabien Barthez.
The Manchester United stopper, back after being left out of the semi-final against Turkey, was in good form, fortunately for 'Les Bleus', with only his lightning reflexes foiling a close range shot from Mohamadou Idrissou.
With ten minutes of the first period left Barthez' athleticism kept out a climbing right footed shot from Pius Ndiefi, responsible for the decisive goal against Colombia.
The second half was only minutes old when Chelsea defender William Gallas unleashed a 20m shot which fell safely into Kameni's hands
And the Cameroon keeper was a relieved man in the 55th minute when Henry's angled shot dribbled past the left post, Henry allowing himself a wry smile at the unfairness of it all.
Santini, made a number of substitutions, replacing Sylvain Wiltord by his fellow Arsenal player Robert Pires, and Bayern Munich defender Willy Sagnol, back from suspension, by Lilian Thuram.
His Cameroon counterpart, Winfried Schafer, brought on Samuel Eto'o 24 hours after the striker had scored twice in his club Real Mallorca's Spanish Cup triumph just a day earlier.
Eto'o almost broke the deadlock but his right toed attempt edged frustratingly the wrong side of the right post.
With 20 minutes remaining Barthez excelled when tipping a dangerous Modeste Mbami shot over his crossbar.
In the closing stages of normal time both sides had further chances without being able to translate them into an elusive goal, and then suitably Henry came up with the winner after connecting with his knee from a cross from Thuram.