30th October 1999
Hristo Stoichkov wished good luck of the players of CSKA in today's game versus Levski.Right before yesterday's training Itso has phoned on the mobil phone and talked for a long time with the head-coach Dimitar Penev.A little after that Stoichkov wished to hear the players nearby Penev and could give strengths for the battle to three of them.
Hristo is currently in Spain,but there appeared gossips,that he will come home today for the all time derby game.See what Hristo says
19th October 1999
The president of Neftohimik(Burgas) will probably try to have Hristo at his side,when attacking a place in Bulgarian parliament.Here is a picture of Hristo and Portochanov.
15th October 1999
11th October 1999
11th October 1999
11th October 1999
See the latest interview with Hristo
See Hristo's interview
See what Dimitar Dimitrov says
Bulgarian youngsters expect Hristo's arrival in Romania.Stoichkov must join the team,which is participating in a preparation tournamnet for the European qualifications.
9th October 1999
Fifteen minutes before the beginning of the qualification game between the youngster teams of Bulgaria and Luxemburg(3:0) Hristo Stoichkov appeared in the VIP places of stadium 'Hristo Botev' in Vratza and was loudly greeted by the audience.hristo hasn't been in Vratza since 1989,when CSKA won versus Botev in a championship match and the team of the town left the first division.See what Hristo says
8th October 1999
See Hristo press conference
7th October 1999
Stoichkov says he will not return to playing
SOFIA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's former striker Hristo
Stoichkov said on Thursday he would not play again after being
appointed assistant to the head coaches of the country's two
national teams.
"I do not think of playing any more or anywhere," the
33-year-old Stoichkov said in an interview in sports daily 7 Dni
Sport.
"This is a very hard moment as such a decision is very
painful," Stoichkov said.
The newspaper interview offered the firmest word so far from
Stoichkov that he would not resume his playing career after his
contract with Japan's Kashiwa Reysol expired a couple of months
ago.
After 17 years and 37 goals for his country, Stoichkov
retired from international soccer in June after Bulgaria's
European qualifying match against England, his 83rd appearance
for the national team.
Earlier this week he was appointed as assistant to Dimitar
Dimitrov and Stoicho Mladenov, head coaches of the senior and
under-21 teams respectively.
"I took everything from Bulgarian soccer during my long
career as a player and now I have to make some return for it,"
Stoichkov said.
"I am ready for the new challenge...and I will not accept
money for this job," he added.
The 1994 European Footballer of the Year said he wanted to
attend a coaching school in Germany or Italy.
Stoichkov helped Bulgaria to reach the World Cup semifinals
for the first time in 1994. In 1992 he won the European Cup with
Barcelona.
7th October 1999
The new Bulgarian coach Hristo Stoichkov desired to be a coditional coach of the team in the bus of the team.He showed his goals to the nationals and was making all the required exercises together with the players.Hristo also showed moments of the playing of Cruyff.
7th October 1999
See what ex-national team goal keeper zdravko Zdravkov says about Hristo becoming a coach.
6th October 1999
Bulgaria's former striker Hristo
Stoichkov has moved into a new soccer role with his appointment
as assistant to the head coaches of the country's two national
teams.
The 33-year-old forward is to help Dimitar Dimitrov and
Stoicho Mladenov, who are being offered an extension to their
contracts as head coaches of the senior and under-21 teams
respectively until June 2002.
Stoichkov, who is to attend a European coaching school soon,
will not be paid for his job as an assistant, a soccer official
said on Wednesday.
The veteran striker retired from the national team two
months ago in Bulgaria's European qualifying match against
England, his 83rd appearance for his country.
6th October 1999
Stoichkov named Bulgaria national team coach
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Bulgaria's most popular
soccer player Hristo Stoichkov has been
approved by the country's soccer federation as
coach of the national team, sports officials
announced Wednesday.
The 33-year-old midfielder, considered in
Bulgaria the country's most prominent ambassador to the world in
recent years, will run the team together with sports manager
Dimitar Dimitrov.
Stoichkov's career peaked during the 1994 World Cup finals in the
United States where Bulgaria clinched its all-time best fourth place.
The sturdy, left-footed player shared the leading scorer standings
with six goals.
In 1994, he also collected the European Player of the Year award
after helping Spanish soccer giant FC Barcelona to its fourth
successive Spanish league title.
Two years later, he left Barcelona following numerous run-ins with
former coach Louis van Gaal and returned to his native club of
CSKA Sofia.
In 1998, he moved to Japan where he signed with Kashiway
Reysol of the J-League.
5th October 1999
Hristo is already a coach of the two Bulgarian national football teams both men and youngsters.Hristo is not going to take any salary.He will soon attend one of the best European coaching schools.
4th October 1999
Yesterday Hristo was present at the football match Maritza-Cherno More 0:1.
2nd October 1999
See Dimitar Dimitrov interview
1st October 1999
24th September 1999
Hristo Stoichkov and Stefka Kostadinova are organizing a charitable tennis tournament for children,which starts on the 25th of October in Plovdiv.Both of them will go out in the tennis court to show some demonstrative shots on the ball.
Hristo will pass a special preparation for a return to the active sport.He will try to arrange a friendly meeting between the teams of Bulgaria and Danmark.
He is still in Barcelona with Dimitar Dimitrov.They had watched the trainings of the two teams from Barcelona and were present to the Barcelona-Fiorentina match(4:2).
22th September 1999
See what Lubo Penev says about Hristo
22th September 1999
Hristo and Dimitar Dimitrov have been special guests in the home of Johan Cruyff for more than two hours.Stoichkov is going to help the coach of the Bulgarian youngsters Stoycho Mladenov to spend a two-week course in Barcelona.
15th September 1999
Today Hristo met Julio Iglesias in hotel 'Hrankov'.Together they had talked about football.
14th September 1999
Hristo Stoichkov was present on the training of the team of Montpellier in 'Georgi Asparuhov' stadium,where Crvena Zvezda Belgrade met the French team and the score was 1:0 for Zvezda.
On Thursday Hristo and the premier minister of Bulgaria Ivan Kostov are invited to watch the match CSKA-Newcastle.
9th September 1999
BULGARIAN SPIES ON FORMER CLUB
In Basilicagoiano,the Parma squad played a small 60 minute exhibition match dividing themselves into Yellows and Blues.Following the training match,the focus of attention switched to a great past master and one who left his mark on Parma in the 1995/96 season.Hristo Stoichkov,the erstwhile World Player of the year and the man,who has four years being the living embodiment of Bulgarian football hopes, is in Italy,in Basilicagoiano,in fact on holiday.He found time to shake everyone by the hand.He still has not seen the current Parma play,but will be back in Italy to see them in action.He promised.See what Hristo and Parma magazine journalist Elio Gandolfi say.
3rd September 1999
Hristo agreed to become a consultant in the national football team.
3rd September 1999
Hristo denied having any heart problems.He is very angry to the Spanish media,who published this.
2nd September 1999
Stoichkov,who had arrived in Sweden from Spain welcomed Bulgarian national team in the Stockholm airport.Stoichkov categorically denied the gossips that he has a heart disease.Ivan Vutsov said that Hristo will very soon be given a post in the Bulgarian Football Union.
2nd September 1999
According to Spanish media Stoichkov has a serious heart disease and needs a heart surgery.
29th August 1999
Hristo is currently going under medical examinations in Barcelona.On the 4th of September he will be in Stokholm.
24th August 1999
Hristo watched the whole Pro Cup Match CSKA Sofia-Portadown 5:0
22nd August 1999
Hristo appeared yesterday in the tribunes of the national stadium,where he watched the match Iskar-Haskovo 5:0.
21st August 1999
Lubo Penev invites Hristo in CSKA
The president of CSKA Luboslav Penev visitted his friend and ex-teammate Hristo Stoichkov,who is recovering in the combat sanatorium in Bankja with the intention to invite him in the leadership of CSKA,as people close to both football legends said.
Lubo had called Hristo to inform him about his visit in advance,after he couldn't visit him during his treatment in Combat Medical Academy.
20th August 1999
The megastar of Bulgarian football was among the first to call to Kiev to learn details of the match of the national team.Hristo called from his room in the hospital and talked with the whole coaching and administrative headquarters of the team.Stoichkov assured Dimitar Dimitrov that he is feeling well after the electricity hit he lived through and that he may leave the hospital very soon.
Otherwise yesterday a little before the movement to Bankja Hristo was visitted by his best friend in the national team and the player,who inherited the captain band from him-Ivajlo Jordanov.
