Olympiacos Win The Europa Conference League

Olympiacos become the first Greek club side to reach and win a European Final, after a late extra time goal from Ayoub El Kaabi, who will also be the Europa Conference Leauges top scorer with 11 goals. They win the Final in thier home city of Athens in the home stadium of thier local rivals. 

The Athens based team beat Italian side Firoentina who reached the previous years Conference Leauge final losing to West Ham. Fiorentina was given a spot in this years competition due t the suspension of Italian giants Juventus from European compeition and the Florence based side has far exceeded expectations facing the likes of Belgium champions Club Brugge, and Chechia side Viktoria Plezen to reach the final. Thier loss tonight means that the teams 22 year wait for major silverware continues, as well as thier now 64 year wait for European trophies. 

Olympiacos has been the underdogs for most of the competition this year, as are Greek sides ordinarly as none have reached a final throughout the whole history of European competition. Olmpiacos had gone through 4 managers this season with now European Champion Jose Luis Mendilibar taking over in early February. Olympiacos started thier European campaign in the 2nd tier Europa Leauge going through the qualifying round before dropping to the Conference Leauge following the group stage. The Athens based team manged to beat Hungarian champions Ferencvaros, Turkish Cup winners Fenerbahce, and competiton favorite Aston Villa. Fans of the english side had already booked flights and hotel for the final prior to thier tie against Olympiacos such was the confedence of thier fans and of the wider football world in genral. 

Olmpiacos was see through the Semi-finals thanks to an incredibile preformance from El Kaabi who scored 5 of Olympiacos 6 over the two legs. Ayoub El Kaabi, a Morraccan internatiol player, is now the hero and man of the match again for Olympicos as his extra-time 116 minute goal was the difference that secured victory. This win is perhaps the most signifigant in Olympiacos history and for Greek football at large, the countries only other usccsess coming for the national team, winning the 2006 Euros.