- I remember the year 2003, a cousin’s girlfriend gave birth to a baby boy, who was promptly named Marc Viviene Foe. After the Cameroonian player who collapsed on the pitch and died shortly afterwards during the semifinals of the fifa Confederations Cup in France. The story is not so much about the footballer’s name but of how my cousin broke the news to us. He walked into a room where two of my friends and I were watching a reality tv show:(; Must have been Big Brother Africa), sat down without saying a word, and asked for a glass of water. He swallowed the water heavily, sighed and then spoke. “It’s a boy, his name is Marc Vivienne Foe, and the mother is breast…