Aston Villa’s Celebration: Securing Champions League Qualification After 41 Years

The celebrations of Dibu Martínez and Aston Villa after qualifying for the Champions League @AVFCOfficial

There is a party in Birmingham because Aston Villa secured their qualification for the next edition of the Champions League. His pass was confirmed with Tottenham’s 2-0 defeat against Manchester City in the pending match on matchday 34 of the Premier League. The team of Argentines Emiliano Dibu Martínez and Emiliano Buendía will return to the top European tournament after 41 years and which they knew how to win in the 1981/1982 season.

Aston Villa was left with 68 points after their 3-3 draw this Monday against Liverpool at Villa Park, in front of 42 thousand spectators. A victory would have allowed him to meet his objective, which is why he had to wait for today’s match. If Tottenham won, they would be 3 points away and they would have to wait for the decision until the last matchday, which will be Sunday.

With the defeat of Hotspur, Los Villanos secured their ticket to the top club competition in the Old World, as they became unreachable in the fight for the fourth place they finally obtained. This achievement is an incentive after the elimination in the semifinals of the Conference League, the third most important European tournament.

El Dibu Martínez celebrates with Emiliano Buendía and Alex Moreno (@AVFCOfficial)

Draw Martínez and Buendía will have the chance to play in the Champions League and will become the main objective of next season. It is a long journey that began last year when they managed to return to international competition after 13 years, after competing in three consecutive editions of the Europa League.

Once qualification for the Champions League was confirmed, the Aston Villa team celebrated and images of the celebration were broadcast on the club’s networks. Dibu Martínez was one of those who led the movement and was seen uncorking a bottle and soaking his companions.

It will be Aston Villa’s third participation in the Champions League, in which they had a successful debut. After being champion in the 1980/1981 season in the First Division of England (it was not yet the Premier League), that year they played for the first time in the European Champions Cup, the old name of the Champions League.

The Draw Martínez did not stop uncorking and soaking his teammates (@AVFCOfficial)

Toned -perhaps- by the titles that Liverpool achieved at that time in the competition (1976/1977, 1977/1978, 1980/1981), Los Villanos honored English football with a surprising consecration in the 1981/1982 edition. They left Icelandic Valur (5-0, 2-0), BFC Dynamo of East Germany (2-1, 0-1), Dynamo Kyiv of the then Soviet Union (0-0, 2-0) and to Anderlecht of Belgium (1-0, 0-0).

They reached the final in which they faced off against Bayern Munich, who were clear favorites with stars like Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Paul Breitner and Dieter Hoeness, the three top scorers of that edition. However, in the final played at the Feyenoord stadium, they won 1-0 with a goal from Peter Withe. The following year, 1982/1983, they competed again, but were eliminated by Juventus, who beat them in both quarterfinal matches, 2-1 and 3-1.

Every time the Aston Villa players go out onto the field in the middle of the tunnel they have Orejona in the foreground. That latent memory of the maximum title achieved by the Birmingham club is now back in force and after 41 years it will once again compete in the main European tournament. It will be another challenge for Dibu Martínez and the rest of his teammates.

A postcard before this Monday’s game against Liverpool. At Villa Park the return to the Champions League began to be felt (@AVFCOfficial)
2024-05-14 22:29:17
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