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Village in Ghana to celebrate Villa Europa League win with parade

BBC News · May 21, 2026, 12:29 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

Key takeaways

  • Figure caption, Archive: BBC Sport Africa spoke to Owusu Boakye in in 2020 about Ghana's village of 1,000 Villa fans
  • At the same time an open-top bus rolls through Birmingham with Unai Emery's Europa League-winning side on board, a minibus full of Aston Villa fans will be cruising through a village in Ghana to celebrate.
  • Villa ended a 30-year trophy drought on Wednesday with a 3-0 victory over Freiburg at Istanbul's Besiktas Park.

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Figure caption, Archive: BBC Sport Africa spoke to Owusu Boakye in in 2020 about Ghana's village of 1,000 Villa fans

At the same time an open-top bus rolls through Birmingham with Unai Emery's Europa League-winning side on board, a minibus full of Aston Villa fans will be cruising through a village in Ghana to celebrate.

Villa ended a 30-year trophy drought on Wednesday with a 3-0 victory over Freiburg at Istanbul's Besiktas Park.

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