Afghans welcome home heroic soccer team -- KABUL — Thousands of fans -- including the president -- on Thursday gathered to cheer Afghanistan's victorious national football team as they returned home after winning the war-wracked country's first international soccer trophy. -- President Hamid Karzai heralded the team's "historic victory" as he welcomed each player individually at Kabul international airport, where fans waved flags and blew horns. - AFP