{"id":66841,"date":"2025-05-29T08:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66841"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:24:11","slug":"winning-conference-league-can-be-starting-point-for-more-success-maresca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/29\/winning-conference-league-can-be-starting-point-for-more-success-maresca\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Conference League Can Be Starting Point for More Success -Maresca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca believes the club\u2019s UEFA Europa Conference League triumph can serve as a launchpad for greater success in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues staged a brilliant comeback to defeat Real Betis 4-1 in Poland, overturning a 1-0 deficit to claim their first-ever Conference League title.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Chelsea became the first club in history to win all three of UEFA\u2019s major club competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Second-half goals from Enzo Fernandez, Nicolas Jackson, Jadon Sancho, and Moises Caicedo sealed the emphatic win, marking a memorable end to Maresca\u2019s debut season in charge.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the trophy, Chelsea secured a return to the UEFA Champions League by finishing fourth in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to TNT Sports after the final whistle, Maresca expressed pride in his team\u2019s performance and hinted at a promising future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message after the Nottingham game was clear \u2014 if we want to be an important team, what we\u2019ve done so far isn\u2019t enough. We needed to win the final,\u201d said the Italian tactician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud and happy for many reasons. Personally, I feel good, but I\u2019m especially pleased for the fans. They\u2019ve waited two or three years for moments like this &#8211; they deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maresca also acknowledged the club\u2019s heavy investment in recent years and hopes the Conference League title marks the beginning of a new era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe club has spent a lot over the last three or four years. Everyone has been waiting for results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully, this can be the starting point, and we can build something important from here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca believes the club\u2019s UEFA Europa Conference League triumph can serve as a launchpad for greater success in the near future. The Blues staged a brilliant comeback to defeat Real Betis 4-1 in Poland, overturning a 1-0 deficit to claim their first-ever Conference League title. With the victory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1721,1397,979],"class_list":["post-66841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-uefa-conference-league","tag-chelsea-fc","tag-uefa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66844,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions\/66844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}