Roma landed overnight in Fiumicino after the victory in the Conference League. Open the door of the plane, Captain appeared Pellegrini, enthusiastic, with the trophy in hand, followed by Cristante and Mancini, as well as Abraham holding a music box in his hand. Mourinho appeared with a red and yellow scarf in his hand. Ovation below board by airport operators Giallorossi fans. The team and staff then boarded the official team bus with the slogan “Rome won” on the livery, which – escorted – left the airport through a secondary passage. No direct contact between the team and the fans. The wait is therefore in vain for the more than a thousand supporters of the team who waited for hours outside Terminal 5. As the news spread that the players had left the airport, the fans also came home in dribs and drabs, not hiding a bit ‘of disappointment.
MAGICAL EVENING
Roma won the Conference League, beating Feyenoord 1-0 in the final. Zaniolo’s goal at 32 ‘pt THE PHOTOS Euphoria at the Olympic Stadium PHOTO The party of the fans PHOTO
1-0 at Feyenoord, Roma wins the Conference League
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Mourinho always wins. In spite of those who – at least until tonight – snubbed the Conference League as a secondary competition, in Tirana there is a people in the throes of a collective delirium, and an unlimited happiness: Roma have won in Europe. And her return to success after 14 years of fasting (the 2008 Italian Cup) also marks the return of an Italian trophy success twelve years later. Of course, it is not Mourinho’s 2010 Championships, but a small springboard from which to start again. For Rome for sure, for the Italian clubs perhaps also. The Giallorossi team took home the second continental trophy in its history, the Conference League, after beating Feyenoord 1-0 with a goal from the rediscovered jewel Zaniolo, and to José Mourinho, yet another magic succeeds. It is still him, the Special One who has always flirted with the Cups and now has 26 titles on the bulletin board. Including every possible trophy in Europe, including the Cup Winners’ Cup which is no longer there and which he won in 1997 as assistant coach of Barcelona.
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Pictures from the final in Tirana (ANSA)
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“So many things that go through my head at the same time. It’s been an incredible eleven months, and doing this right away. As I told the boys in Turin, we had done what we have to do. Today we had to write history and we did it.” The Roma coach Josè Mourinho cries and exults after having entered the Giallorossi history with the conquest of the Conference League. “It was a competition in which from the beginning we had the feeling that it was possible, did we beat a great Feyernord? I remain there is no doubt, I want to stay here. We need to understand what our owners want to do, I am 100% Romanista % “.
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Rome celebrating Rome’s victory in the Conference League. Giallorossi flags and choirs in the streets of the center where thousands of fans poured out. From the suburbs of the historic Giallorossi faith, the fans started pouring into the street just before the referee’s whistle in Tirana, by now the victory was certain. And then off to the city center for this night of victory.
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Carousels and horns through the streets of the city (ANSA)
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“Now we celebrate, we deserve it. But a real team celebrates, and then starts again: we have to fix this moment in mind and then make it happen again as soon as possible. “So from the Tirana field Lorenzo Pellegrini, captain of Rome, rejoices for the final victory of the Conference League.” To the fans – added the midfielder to Sky, while the rest of the team dances under the curve of the Tirana stadium occupied by the Giallorossi supporters – we have given back a small piece of everything they have given us “.
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The fans whistle on the pitch to celebrate the victory (ANSA)
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Spinazzola ‘the only ones to win in Europe, great’
“A very great, wonderful thing, we enjoy these beautiful people”. Leonardo Spinazzola recently returned to play with Roma after his injury, he celebrates the Conference with his fans and also talks about the national team: “They have always given me affection – adds the blue lateral – they have been fantastic as always. With Italy we will get up again, this is a great thing, we were the only Italian team to win a European Cup. ” Mancini, it was only about winning and we did it “There was no tomorrow, there was only tonight, it was only about winning and we did it”. The defender of Roma Gianluca Mancini so rejoices after the Giallorossi triumph in Tirana. “In the first half they had few chances, in the second half I said to hold on and we risked going 2-0. It’s a unique emotion, after 31 years winning a trophy like the Conference: we didn’t play a great match but we did well and we enjoy this great victory “. “It’s wonderful, I realized the dream I had as a child. The fans are great, they are fantastic, this is all for them.” These are the first words of Nicolò Zaniolo after winning the Conference League in Tirana with Roma thanks to his goal. “We are a strong team – he added – maybe we don’t know how much. It is dedicated to my mom, my grandfather, my dad and my sister who have been close to me in difficult moments”.
THE TALE OF THE MATCH With Mourinho and with his final tears, the thousands of Roma fans who in Tirana filled half the stadium, more in number than the opposing fans, were identified, in the end going crazy with joy. Songs and dances, the dazzling smile of Totti who in the stands embraces his son Cristian wrapped in a yellow and red scarf, is a feeling of being alive again, also because many had never experienced a victory before. In the end, the Romanist and Roman captain, Lorenzo Pellegrini, raised the Cup in the center of the field, to the tune of “We are the Champions” immediately replaced by the ‘tell me what is’ “of the Romanist anthem by Antonello Venditti Mourinho and Roma won the Conference League because, as often happens in the finals, whoever scores first wins and then finishes 1-0. It went like this again this time, Zaniolo’s left touch in the 32nd minute of the first half was enough, on an assist from Mancini and anticipating Trauner: stop of the chest, touch and net, mocking a Bijlow who appeared uncertain. So Roma, in which Smalling has dominated in defense, broke the spell and also overcome the handicap of having lost Mkhitaryan after just 17 minutes due to a resentment in the right thigh flexors. It is also significant that with Zaniolo, whose goal smacks of redemption after the double injury, in the final to give a hand to the winning suffering of Rome, Spinazzola also entered, recently returned from one year stop. In short, a look to the future. The present in Tirana, before the triumph, was suffering and mental strength, because against a Feyenoord who often had ball possession but appeared inconclusive, and also unfortunate when at the beginning of the second half he hit a post and a crossbar in five minutes , Roma had the merit of going beyond their limits and defects. He won even though he again revealed little quality in midfield, and in particular the lack of a man to organize the game, that director so often asked by Mourinho. The Giallorossi, especially in the first half, pushed so much on the flanks precisely because in the middle they could not produce a maneuver that would worry the opponents, in whose ranks a Kocku (an assisted by Totti’s agency) shone who has a little the characteristics of the player who would serve there in the midst of the Giallorossi. The bogeymen Dessers and Sinisterra, on the other hand, were well neutralized by the Roma defense. Vain attacks from Feyenoord in the second half, who wasted an opportunity with Linssen in recovery, while from the stands behind Rui Patricio it rained a stick, inflatable bananas and a full bottle. Then, to uncork one in the field was Rome, for the sweet party of Tirana, in the name of Mourinho
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