{"id":595820,"date":"2026-05-21T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595820\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T08:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:12:10","slug":"europa-league-champions-aston-villa-get-birmingham-victory-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595820\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa League champions Aston Villa get Birmingham victory parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight thousands fans in the stadium erupted in celebration the moment Aston Villa were announced winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">John in Istanbul told the BBC the win was everything he had dreamed of. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a fantastic win. Absolutely brilliant. It will be remembered for years to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But fans who were not in the stadium still had their moment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owusu Boakye Amando, head of Aston Villa supporters in Ghana, told the BBC how fans 4,000 miles away felt. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Yesterday was one of our best moments in life. What a time to support Aston Villa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Around 4pm in the evening, we all chanted songs and cheering up the boys. It was amazing &#8211; what a time to be alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kevin Evans, from Bilston, said: &#8220;It was magical, it&#8217;s a feeling I can&#8217;t even describe today. I&#8217;m suffering bit &#8211; sore throat, headache, but I don&#8217;t care.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eight thousands fans in the stadium erupted in celebration the moment Aston Villa were announced winners. John in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-595820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}