2023-06-01 00:04:46
Seville and Roma played in the Europa League final. Photo: @SevillaFC
Sevilla became champion of the Europa League by defeating in penalties against Roma, in the final played at the Puskás Arena in Budapest on May 31, 2023.
is the seventh Europa League that Sevilla wins, a club destined to conquer this tournament.
Sevilla have secured their seventh UEFA Cup/Europa League title by beating Roma in a penalty shootout that came after a 1-1 draw in regulation time in the final played at the Puskas Arena in Budapest .
The Andalusian team, which won this continental tournament in 2006, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020, leads Inter, Juventus, Liverpool and Atlético de Madrid by four crowns.
They have not lost any of the finals they have played. It is the fourteenth title in the history of Spanish football, which has four more than England and Italy and six more than Germany.
Sevilla takes over from the German Eintracht Frankfurt, which won last year precisely in the Andalusian capital, the Scottish Rangers in the penalty shootout (5-4) after finishing the match and extra time with a draw at one goal.
A final with a full stadium
The passion, the joy, the nerves and the songs of the fans were protagonists before the final of the Europa League between the Sevilla and the Roma in the stadium Puskás Arena in Budapest, where the romanistas, about 20,000, outnumber the almost 13,000 sevillistas present, although neither of the two fans is daunted and they are non-stop cheering for their teams.
The outburst of support for Sevilla came when the Andalusian club’s Centenary anthem rang through the loudspeakers, sung by all its supporters, located mostly in the North Fund stands and in the middle of the adjacent stand, and was whistled by the fans of ‘La Loba’, whose classic anthem was also heard in the stadium to the jubilation of the Italians.
Both hobbies deployed two separate tifos, the one of the Sevilla with the motto “Imperium nostrum”, and that of Roma with the yellow and imperial red colors of its team and those of the Italian flag, in this case accompanied by several lighted flares.
Subsequently, a giant triangular flag was displayed on the field with the UEFA shield and the symbol and name of the Europa League, after which a group of young people staged a light, music and sound show on the pitch, with dances , elongated fluorescent tubes with which they made different figures, unfolded white ribbons and balls and flames of fire thrown into the air.
Two large shields of the finalist clubs were also displayed on the pitch, which led to the departure of the players accompanied by children and the refereeing team to the delirium of the two fans.
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