Villa will take on German side Freiburg in the Istanbul showpiece later this month after a dominant 4-0 victory (4-1 on aggregate) against Premier League rivals Nottingham Forest in Thursday's (07.05.26) semi-final second leg and the captain says the squad are striving for a place in the club's history books.
McGinn told TNT Sports: "It's a demanding club to play for, but when it's like this, Villa Park is electric. There's no better place to play your football every second week or European football.
"What we have done in the last few weeks has been exceptional. The margins are so slim - if we lose tonight, then we are the nearly men. When we go to Istanbul in 10 days, we need to make sure that we are not the nearly men.
"It's about embracing it [pressure] and trying to become legends. You see the guys from 1982, you see the cup winners in the 90s. It's a historic club, and it's been a long time without success.
"There have been massive lows, like relegation, and it has built itself back up. It's such a proud football club, it deserves success, and hopefully we can be the group to do it."
McGinn says he felt more pressure than usual ahead of the game as Villa overturned their first-leg deficit to reach a first European final since 1982.
The Scotland international said: "I am normally quite calm before games, but the pressure today was intense.
"This group of players deserves to go one step further to get to a final after a few semi-final disappointments.
"You can kid on that it doesn't affect you, but today I was nervous. Tonight was up there with one of the best performances I have seen from a Villa team in a long time. We started with intent. We were pretty fortunate with Forest's injuries, and we needed to capitalise.
"Then to stay up, which is the most pressure you can have. It was more in case we had a man sent off or something like that, also because we didn't handle that first leg too well. I didn't want to leave these two games with any regrets, and tonight we have done ourselves massive justice."
