Village in Ghana to celebrate Villa Europa League win with parade

Juaben's emotion for Villa stems from his gramps Daniel, who utilized to enactment with a Villa-supporting household from Birmingham.

"When we were kids helium utilized to archer america stories and past astir Aston Villa," Boakye said. "He utilized to speech astir a definite subordinate called 'God'."

The shot 'god' was Paul McGrath, who made much than 250 appearances for Villa betwixt 1989 and 1996.

McGrath was portion of the squad erstwhile Villa won their astir caller trophy, the 1996 League Cup.

Since then, a caller procreation of Villa fans successful Juaben person been "waiting" for the nine to marque history.

That was until Youri Tielemans, Emi Buendia and Morgan Rogers scored against Freiburg.

"It was amazing. What a clip to beryllium live - the full assemblage coming unneurotic to enactment Aston Villa," Boakye said.

"During 1982, erstwhile we won our archetypal European Cup, astir of the fans present yesterday, we were not born. We were waiting for our ain past yesterday."