France won the UEFA U-17 Championship for the second time by overpowering Germany 4-1 helped by Odsonne Edouard’s hat-trick in an entertaining final in the Bulgarian city of Burgas, yesterday.

France, who also triumphed in 2004, went ahead just before the break when Edouard gave goalkeeper Constantin Frommann no chance with a precise shot from 12 metres out.

Edouard scored again after the interval but the Germans reduced the deficit when France goalkeeper Luca Zidane – son of former great Zinedine Zidane – could only divert Erdinc Karakas’s header into the net.

Edouard, who finished as tournament top scorer with eight goals, made it 3-1 before Germany’s Gokhan Gul sliced a clearance into his own net in the closing stages.

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