
West Ham United youngsters Gideon Kodua and Callum Marshall were in jubilant mood on Tuesday night.
The two young stars were key for the Hammers as they defeated Arsenal in the FA Youth Cup final.
Captain Kodua and his strike partner Marshall both scored in a 5-1 win over Jack Wilshere's young Arsenal side.
It was a good game and I think our boys are just a special group, really," said captain Kodua to the club website.
The work-rate on the pitch and off the pitch is unbelievable and that's how you get here and win the cup!
It feels amazing [to captain West Ham to a trophy win]. I would just like to thank God for everything. God has done so much for me and there is more to come from me and all of us, from the whole team, so we're just going to keep beating people.
It sounded like there were 20,000 [West Ham supporters] there. I would just to thank the fans from coming. They were amazing, especially when we scored, and their emotion was just flowing all over the pitch.
I would just like to congratulate Arsenal on getting to the final, too. I think they controlled the game really well, especially in the second half, but we nicked out goals and changed the momentum."
I can't really put it into words, to be honest with you!" Marshall added.
It just shows, we had our fans here and they out-sang the Arsenal fans and I think that got us through, to be honest, because it was a struggle. There was a lot in front of us, but the boys stuck together and we got the result.
Arsenal played some good football, but they just couldn't break us down. We kept working until the very end and in this team Kev says that if you don't work hard, you're not going to go anywhere, so I don't there was anyone on that pitch that didn't work their socks off for the team."
