Feyenoord’s Nigerian striker Cyriel Dessers has emerged as the first ever top scorer in the inaugural UEFA Europa Conference League, Completesports.com reports.
After the conclusion of the competition which saw Roma pip Feyenoord 1-0 in Wednesday’s final, Dessers finished as top scorer after netting 10 goals.
Dessers was in action in the final played in Tirana, Albania, but could not help Feyenoord to a first European title since 2002.
The hero of the night was Nicolo Zaniolo whose 32nd minute goal, landed Roma a first ever European title.
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It also means Jose Mourinho has now won the Champions League, Europa League and the Europa Conference League, the first man to achieve the feat.
Dessers ended the season with 21 goals, six assists in 46 games in all competitions.
The Europa Conference League serves as the bottom level of the existing Europa League competition, which was reduced from 48 to 32 teams in the group stage.
The competition is primarily contested by teams from lower-ranked UEFA member associations.
No teams qualify directly to the group stage, with 10 teams eliminated in the Europa League play-offs and the rest coming from the Europa Conference League qualifiers.
The winners of the competition are awarded a position in the Europa League the following season, unless they qualify for the Champions League.
By James Agberebi
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CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!
GOOD STRIKER WITH GREAT POTENTIAL
GOOD LUCK TO YOU
I am very satisfied with Dessers achievements so far. What a striker brave.
Can’t wait to see my lovely Dessers against Mexico and Ecuador, it won’t be easy though because he played today and he have to travel from Europe to America, it is a long journey but as a professional, he have to do his best in those encounters for Nigeria.
Also, both Oga Rohr and Mr. Eguavoen will realized their mistakes and both of them will see it clearly with their two eyes koro koro like this that Dessers is one of the best strikers we have currently.
I hope Oga Paseiro is going to give us what we have been waiting for. Let’s wait and see. Fingers crossed. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Lovely to see Kolawole Dessers doing so well. Thumbs up.
Dessers is in a very good form now. It wasn’t so earlier on. Pual Onuachu was benching him at Gent. That could be the reason why he was not being invited to Camp by Oga Rohr and Egueavon. We are very happy with him now, though.