In the Europa League final, Atlanta defeated Leverkusen 3-0, winning the first Europa League championship in the history of the team, as well as the first European championship since the team was founded 117 years ago. According to statistics, the champion of Atlanta is the 40th European championship trophy in the history of the Serie A team. As the team coach, 66 year old Gasperini also broke the curse.
Atalanta is not expected to win the Europa League this season, but coach Gasperini has completed the counter attack.
From the group match to the last 16, Atlanta successively won the Portuguese Super League champion Portuguese Sports this season. Then the top eight beat out Liverpool, and then the top four beat Marseille. In the final, Leverkusen, who has been unbeaten since the season, won the coveted European championship and created a miracle of winning the championship.
For Gasperini, this is his first championship trophy in his 30 years of coaching. In other words, the Italian coach started to lead the team at the age of 36, and now at the age of 66, he has finally tasted the taste of winning the championship.
According to statistics, at the age of 66 years and 117 days, Gasperini became the coach who won the championship for the first time when he led his team to play in the European final, and also the second Italian coach who won the European Cup after Sari in 2019.
After the game, Gasperini was as excited as the Atlanta players, and could not help shedding tears.
In this regard, Gasperini said:“ I think we have entered history, but the way we won is extraordinary. We repeated our performances against Liverpool and Portugal. Portugal won the league championship. When we went there, Liverpool ranked first in the Premier League. At the same time, Leverkusen absolutely dominated the Bundesliga this season. Winning the Europa League was an extraordinary achievement. I want to thank the boys for their incredible performance 。”
In addition to leading Atlanta to win the Europa League for the first time, Gasperini also ended the 61 year wait for the team. The last time Atlanta won the Cup was back to the 1963 Italian Cup.
Although Atlanta has locked the qualification of next season's Champions League through the domestic league ranking, after winning the Europa League championship, it can lock the identity of the first level. At that time, the draw can avoid the first level of the big teams, which is more conducive to the promotion to the last 16.
Special statement: The above content (including pictures or videos, if any) is uploaded and released by users of "Netease" on our media platform, and this platform only provides information storage services.
Notice: The content above (including the pictures and videos if any) is uploaded and posted by a user of NetEase Hao, which is a social media platform and only provides information storage services.
