Welsh English Premier League club Swansea City beat English fourth division Bradford City, 5-0, in England's League Cup final -- the Capital One Cup -- to claim its first major trophy in its
101-year history.
Bradford, the first fourth-tier club to appear in a major Wembley final, had goalkeeper Matt Duke red-carded while 3-0 down. Nathan Dyer
and Jonathan de Guzman scored two goals each and Michu struck once. The victory comes with a berth in next season's Europa League -- a decade after the Welsh club
nearly folded because of financial problems.
“It was a great performance,” Swansea coach Michael Laudrup. “As a manager it’s absolutely at the top,
winning a trophy for the first time in 100 years. The first trophy is always special, and now next year in Europe. It’s a nice experience.”
Swansea almost went out of business
and narrowly avoided dropping out of the Football League in 2003, surviving with a win over Hull City on the final day of the season of fourth division play.
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