Arsenal Win The UEFA Women’s Cup !!!
English Arsenal women squad win The UEFA Women’s Cup this season after 1-0 victory aggregate against Swedish champions Umea. Arsenal Ladies became the first British club to win the trophies. “It’s the greatest moment in our history,” said the Arsenal women manager, Vic Akers. This trophies also completed their 20th anniversary.
Umea went into the tournament as favorites. The club is Europe’s only full-time professional team, but part-timers Arsenal managed to hold them at bay. The London club won a 1-0 victory last Saturday in the first leg of the final.
Umea came close to saving the match at times, with Ramona Bachman hitting the post and a shot by Marta bouncing a free kick off the bar. But Arsenal’s strong defence led them to a win on aggregate.
Arsenal women squad had already won the domestic Premier League title and League Cup this season, and could add the FA Cup in eight days’ time.
They are the most successful team in the history of British women’s football, with nine Premier Leaguer titles (including in each of the last four seasons), seven FA Cups, eight League Cups and now the Uefa Cup, a competitio in which they finished as quarter-finalists in 2002 and 2006, and semi-finalists in 2003 and 2005.
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