Leicester City Football Club won the English Premier League, beating the odds of 5000-to-1. And when the moment of victory came, their captain, Christian Fuchs, did us the favor of posting the team’s reaction on Twitter.
The players weren’t on the field—the title was won when their closest rival, Tottenham Hotspur, failed to beat Chelsea. It looked like the celebrations in Leicester would be put off another week after the Spurs took a 2–0 lead at halftime, but Chelsea fought back for its former manager Claudio Ranieri to draw 2–2.
The video shows Leicester players uncontrollably screaming, jumping, and embracing each other. In less than 40 minutes after posting the video, it had been retweeted over 160,000 times.
Leicester City finished 14th in the 20-team EPL last year after a 10-year stay in the lower divisions of English football.
U.K.’s Prime Minister David Cameron sent the team his congratulations.
“Many congratulations to Leicester,” he tweeted. “An extraordinary, thoroughly deserved, Premier League title.”
Many congratulations to Leicester. An extraordinary, thoroughly deserved, Premier League title.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) May 2, 2016
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