{"id":681348,"date":"2026-05-19T18:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T18:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:43:11","slug":"aston-villa-europa-league-final-press-conference-live-unai-emery-john-mcginn-emi-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/681348\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa Europa League final press conference live: Unai Emery, John McGinn &#038; Emi Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Proudest moment as captain&#8217;published at 16:05 BST<\/p>\n<p>16:05 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Freiburg v Aston Villa (Wed, 20:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/f6ea3c69-98f2-4657-9128-35fca1ac6b38.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-1b4qg0x-ContributorLink etflsgg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aston Villa captain John McGinn in training\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/e562aa10-64fb-4d85-a61b-c7fe88e000e2.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three news conferences for the price of one there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here is the final word from John McGinn, on whether to be Aston Villa captain and reach the Europa League final is his proudest moment: <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now? I would say so, yeah. It has been a brilliant journey, full of ups and downs, close moments, very close to going back to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It fills me with pride as to where the club is now and it also fills me with pride as to where this club could go, like the manager has touched upon, this isn&#8217;t something we want to come here, celebrate and have a fanfare, we want to be focussed on this match, we know how good Freiburg are. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know how difficult it is to get to a final, so we will treat them with the respect they deserve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We will only build as a club if we keep doing the same things we are doing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But if you ask me on a personal level, throughout the years I have been here, definitely this is the proudest moment as captain here.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;Proudest moment as captain&#8217;published at 16:05 BST 16:05 BST Freiburg v Aston Villa (Wed, 20:00 BST) Aston Villa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-681348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}