AS Roma won their first major European trophy by beating Feyenoord in the inaugural Europa Conference League final in Tirana - Albania.
This was Roma's first trophy for 14 years.
Jose Mourinho's first season in charge of the Italians ended with a trophy after Nicolo Zaniolo chested down Gianluca Mancini's lofted pass before beating goalkeeper Justin Bijlow with a clever flick.
Mourinho, who has won the Champions League, Europa League and the Uefa Cup, is the first manager to win all of Uefa's major European trophies.
He said after the match: "We have written history. This is a competition we believed we could win since the start.
"Many things are going through my head right now. I feel like a true Romanista. I knew the moment I arrived what it meant to the people. They had been waiting for something like this.
"This was not work tonight, this was history. We had to write history. We wrote it.
"I am staying, there's no doubt about that. We need to see what our owners, who are fantastic people, want to do next season because this is history, but we can build a special project. Now I'm going to go on holiday, sit on the beach and think about it all for a while."
50,000 fans who could not make the trip to Albania packed the Stadio Olimpico in the Italian capital to watch their team make history.
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