Italian giants Juventus have sent a message congratulating West Ham as they troll bitter rivals Fiorentina.
West Ham are in dreamland today after beating Fiorentina to win the Europa Conference League.
It is the club’s first major trophy in 43 years and first proper European success since 1965.
By winning the competition, West Ham have also qualified for next season’s Europa League.
Congratulations have been flooding in for the Hammers across social media.
Hammers make history
And Italian giants Juventus have sent a message congratulating West Ham as they troll bitter rivals Fiorentina.
The Fiorentina and Juventus beef is an inter-city football rivalry contested between the Florence and Turin based clubs.
Unlike most other football derbies, this one is borne not out of geographical proximity or longstanding competitiveness but rather from local patriotism, or campanilismo, bitterness and accusations of ‘thievery’.
The rivalry has been fuelled by their controversial meetings in cup finals, and competition in the transfer market. A player transferring from one club to the other, especially from Florence to Turin, is usually branded a ‘traitor’ by fans.
Italian giants Juventus send message congratulating West Ham as they troll bitter rivals Fiorentina
And that rivalry will only intensify after the official Juventus social media account congratulated West Ham after they beat rivals Fiorentina 2-1.
“Congratulations to West Ham for winning this season’s Conference League,” Juventus posted on its Twitter accounts.
It rubs salt in the wound for Fiorentina, who also lost the Coppa Italia at the end of last month.
A breathtaking last gasp goal from Jarrod Bowen gave West Ham a 2-1 win La Viola which will go down in history.
Said Benrahma had given West Ham the lead but they were pegged back just a few minutes later.
Bowen would have the final say, though, timing his run perfectly as he was found beautifully by Lucas Paqueta before providing a finish that West Ham fans will never, ever forget.
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