Ghana's Juaben Plans 30-Motorcycle Parade for Aston Villa's 3-0 Europa League Triumph
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Updated · BBC.com · May 21
Ghana's Juaben Plans 30-Motorcycle Parade for Aston Villa's 3-0 Europa League Triumph
2 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 21
Juaben, a Ghanaian village with about 1,000 Aston Villa fans, will stage a makeshift victory parade with 30 motorcycles and a minibus on Thursday.
The celebration mirrors Villa's open-top bus procession in Birmingham after Unai Emery's side beat Freiburg 3-0 in Istanbul to end a 30-year trophy drought.
Owusu Boakye, who leads the Ghana Lions supporters' club, said the village wanted to drive through the community to capture the chanting and emotion after the final.
Juaben's Villa following traces back to Boakye's grandfather, who learned the club's history from a Birmingham family and passed down stories of Paul McGrath to a new generation.
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