 Henry returned to form for his country at the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup . Despite playing without team stalwarts Zidane and Patrick Vieira , France won , in large part owing to Henry 's outstanding play , for which he was named Man of the Match by FIFA 's Technical Study Group in three of France 's five matches . In the final , he scored the golden goal in extra time to lift the title for the host country after a 1 – 0 victory over Cameroon . Henry was awarded both the Adidas Golden Ball as the outstanding player of the competition and the Adidas Golden Shoe as the tournament 's top goalscorer with four goals . 
