West Ham United win Europa Conference League

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Europa Conference League Final

Fiorentina 1-2 West Ham United



London club West Ham United have tonight won their first major trophy since the FA Cup in 1980 by winning the second Europa Conference League by beating Italian giants Fiorentina (Florence) in the Final at the Fortuna Arena in Prague. West Ham scored the winner in the last minute of normal time.

It's the London club's first major European trophy since 1965 and also the first major trophy for West Ham United's manager David Moyes, former Manchester United manager.

The inaugural Europa Conference League - which is now alongside the Champions League and Europa League as one of the three major European club tournaments - was won last year by Roma.

 

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Thousands today lined the streets of London as the capital's West Ham United paraded the Europa Conference League trophy on an open-topped bus.

West Ham fans even climbed the statue of Bobby Moore - England's 1966 World Cup winning captain and West Ham United star - to see their heroes.

West Ham United beat Italians Fiorentina (Florence) 2-1 in the Final yesterday.

It's West Ham's first major trophy since 1980, so their fans went berserk...

 

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Only if you call the Europa Cup a "major trophy."

 

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It is a major trophy.

There are now three European trophies and they're all big ones.

We're not talking about some minor domestic lower league trophy like the Papa Johns Trophy in England, won this year by Bolton Wanderers who beat Plymouth Argyle 4-0 in the Final (such is the popularity of football in England that this lower league minor tournament final attracted a crowd of 79,389, the largest football crowd in Europe that weekend). These are major European-wide tournaments in which the best sides on the continent compete.

This season, of the three European tournaments - Champions League, Europa Conference League, Europa League - two of them were won by English teams (Manchester City and West Ham United) and one of them (Europa League) was won by Spanish team Sevilla, who seems to win it nearly every year. When the Europa League comes along, you know Sevilla will probably win it.

So England and Spain are the two strongest footballing powers in Europe right now.

 

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It is a major trophy.

There are now three European trophies and they're all big ones.

We're not talking about some minor domestic lower league trophy like the Papa Johns Trophy in England, won this year by Bolton Wanderers who beat Plymouth Argyle 4-0 in the Final (such is the popularity of football in England that this lower league minor tournament final attracted a crowd of 79,389, the largest football crowd in Europe that weekend). These are major European-wide tournaments in which the best sides on the continent compete.

This season, of the three European tournaments - Champions League, Europa Conference League, Europa League - two of them were won by English teams (Manchester City and West Ham United) and one of them (Europa League) was won by Spanish team Sevilla, who seems to win it nearly every year. When the Europa League comes along, you know Sevilla will probably win it.

So England and Spain are the two strongest footballing powers in Europe right now.

Third place is second loser.