{"id":358560,"date":"2021-05-30T08:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358560"},"modified":"2021-05-30T08:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T07:23:36","slug":"champions-league-final-ronaldinho-drogba-fabregas-react-as-chelsea-defeat-man-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358560","title":{"rendered":"Champions League final: Ronaldinho, Drogba, Fabregas react as Chelsea defeat Man City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Barcelona legend, Ronaldinho, has congratulated Chelsea for beating Manchester City to win this year\u2019s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea defeated Man City 1-0 to win their first Champions League trophy since 2012 on Saturday night in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>Kai Havertz scored the match\u2019s only goal in the 42nd minute after Chelsea split open Man City\u2019s defence with a counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, Ronaldinho applauded Chelsea defender, Thiago Silva and all the Brazilians who participated in winning the Champions League for the Blues.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldinho wrote on Twitter, \u201cCongratulations @ChelseaFC to my friend @tsilva3 and the Brazilians who participated in this great achievement #UCLfinal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also reacting, former Chelsea stars, Didier Drogba and Cesc Fabregas also paid tributes to Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men for defeating Pep Guardiola\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Fabregas tweeted, \u201cCHAMPIONS OF EUROPE!! What a phenomenal effort from Chelsea tonight. I have no words\u2026. What a result @themichaelowen and @yayatoure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On his part, Drogba wrote, \u201cWhen they called us the underdogs, we played like CHAMPIONS @ChelseaFC @ChampionsLeague. We believed. Yesssssss mon fr\u00e8re never give up so proud of you @ToniRuediger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(Chelsea)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona legend, Ronaldinho, has congratulated Chelsea for beating Manchester City to win this year\u2019s Champions League. Chelsea defeated Man City 1-0 to win their first Champions League trophy since 2012 on Saturday night in Portugal. Kai Havertz scored the match\u2019s only goal in the 42nd minute after Chelsea split open Man City\u2019s defence with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,1397,14519],"class_list":["post-358560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-barcelona","tag-chelsea","tag-ronaldinho"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}