Berbatov hasn’t given up on his Belgium-inspired strategy, and on trying to remove elected president via court case
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Borislav Mihaylov won marginally to assume his fifth term as president, amid scrutiny over illegitimate results from opponents - including Dimitar Berbatov.
“The decision is clear, all delegates are already back home and I’m the president now.” But Berbatov’s team hopeful that Sofia City Court could still end up ruling in favour of a new congress.
UEFA President Alexander Ceferin was among the first to congratulate Mihaylov, who is under fire from several clubs in Bulgaria after dramatic decline in sporting results.
We talked exclusively to fellow Berbatov campaigner Boris Stankov, about the reforms they want to make. And they want to learn from Belgium’s success.
5 November 2021 - 3:06 PM
A thunderstorm was brewing on the eve of 14 October 2019 in Sofia, Bulgaria. In a Euro qualifier hosting the future 2020 runners-up England, the Bulgarian national team had just suffered a humiliating 0-6 loss.
It was the Balkan team’s heaviest home defeat in its entire 97-year footballing history, but that wasn’t what made the international headlines. Instead it was the racist abuse from a minority of Bulgarian spectators towards England’s black players, including Tyrone Mings, Rah
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