After gaining
promotion to the Premier League, Huddersfield manager David
Wagner said his players have become legends.
A 4-3 shoot-out victory in the Sky Bet Championship play-off
final followed a nervy goalless 120 minutes at Wembley on Monday, meaning the
Terriers will return to the top flight of English football for the first time
since 1972.
He said “Everybody knows that last time this club was in the top division was 45
years ago, it's a big, big achievement and I'm so proud of my players, and I'm
happy for the whole town and everyone who helped Huddersfield take these steps
forward - including the chairman, who backed nearly all of my ideas! I said to
the players before the play-offs that you are heroes after what they've done
this season. But in football you can go from hero to zero in only a week, but
now they've become legends. Everyone will remind this group what they've done
with such a small budget, and they deserve it. We've had so many setbacks and
problems without the the biggest squad, but we trusted and believed in ourselves
and came through in the end.”
Wagner became the first ever
foreign boss to win the second-tier play-offs in England, and said he was
delighted to prove that experience is not the be all and end all in football.
He said “I'm
so happy we've proven that experience is not everything, I've always been
confronted with questions of my experience in English football, the league, no
winter break and the play-offs. Experience is important, but if you have
passion, desires and ideas you can match it. We've shown it's possible and
brought this fairy tale to a happy ending.”
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