Celebrity Coach José Mourinho the ‘Special One’ has added another first to his archives by leading AS Roma to win the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League trophy.


AS Roma defeated Feyenoord 1 -0 in the final Tirana. The lone winning goal came from Nicolo Zaniolo at the 32′.

This win meant that;

AS Roma has made history as the first club and José Mourinho first coach to win the UEFA Europa Conference League by club.

This is Roma first trophy in 14 years.

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Roma is the first Italian club to win a continental trophy in 12 years. The last time an Italian club won a trophy was in 2010 when Internazionale coached byJosé Mourinho won the Champions League.

According to uefa.com, José Mourinho is the first coach to win all three current men’s UEFA club competitions – UEFA Champions League (Porto 2003/04, Inter 2009/10), UEFA Europa League (Manchester United 2016/17) and UEFA Europa Conference League (Roma 2021/22).

According to Wikipedia on EUFA ECL, “First contested in the 2021–22 season, the league serves as the bottom level of the existing Europa League competition, which was reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage. The competition is primarily contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations. No teams qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers. The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions League.”

AS Roma by virtue of their League position had already qualified for the 2022-23 Europa League.

Culled from www.naijaspleen.com