In the middle of the celebrations that followed Tottenhams Europa League triumph, three players were waiting for their winner’s medal.

Manager Verzecoglou received the first to receive a medal from UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin 1-0 victory against Manchester United.

The injured Trio James Maddison, Timo Werner and Lucas Bergvall and wants to Lankshear – who had loaned the second half of the season in West Brom – were also on the line and let a medal draped around his neck.

The club captain son Heung-Min, Cristian Romero and Rodrigo Bentancur were not so lucky and had to wait until they came to the changing room to get their.

“For our great displeasure, we did not have enough medals on stage during the Trophyeremony presentation, since more team members – including injured players – were participated in the ceremony than originally expected,” said UEFA.

“The missing medals were immediately delivered to the winning team in the changing room, together with our sincere apology for the supervision.”

According to the rules of UEFA, both the profit and the loss teams are presented 50 medals.

It is at the discretion of the association how these medals are distributed between players and employees.

The UEFA had prepared 30 medals to distribute on the field before Spurs raised their first piece of silver for 17 years.

But like Tottenham’s 23-man matchday squad and the managers, several members of the team who were not available were also part of the ceremony.

Son as a skipper patiently waited on the back of the line so that he could collect the trophy and bring it to his teammates before lifting them up.

The South Korea striker only had to get by with a hug from Ceferin, but he was later seen as he was wearing a winner’s medal – the First he picked up in his senior career at club or international level.