PARIS: Spain showed why they continue to be the current gold standard in international football, with astonishing depth and resilience even in their youth ranks, as they outlasted the physicality of a French home side to win the men's Olympic football gold.
Just when it seemed that they had lost steam in face of the home side's sustained onslaught, substitute Sergio Camello calmly chipped the ball over Guillaume Restes in the French goal to give his side a 4-3 lead seven minutes into extra-time, then three minutes from the end, tore away on the break to put the issue beyond the French for a 5-3 verdict.
