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Race to get Henry's boots to pitch: report
 
 
  
 
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CAPE TOWN (AFP) - – South African traffic officers whisked football star Thierry Henry's customs-detained boots into French hands an hour before the team's first World Cup match, a Sunday newspaper reported.
 
"It was a weird request. We've never done something like this before," provincial traffic spokeswoman Merle Lourens told the Sunday Times.
 
"Under the circumstances, we needed to get the game going. The guys can't play without their boots."
 
The traffic department was asked to fetch the French striker's boots from the Cape Town airport three hours before match start on Friday, after a courier company had been enlisted to get them to the city the previous day.
 
The boots had been detained at customs, the newspaper said.
 
"We were contacted to say that those were Henry's boots, and they were needed in Cape Town," said Tom Plummer, DHL's managing director in South Africa.
 
"Frankly, at the time I didn't think it could be done because they needed to clear customs" in Johannesburg.
 
The 27-kilogram (57-pound) box was handed to French police an hour before Friday's 0-0 draw against Uruguay, the newspaper said.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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