His face was well known atypical football amateurs. Former Bulgarian international Trifon Ivanov, nicknamed “wolf” for his beard and his playing style, died at age 50 following a heart attack. This was announced on Saturday the Bulgarian Football Federation (BFU). “Sad news! Trifon Ivanov is gone,” wrote in a statement that the BFU according Ivanov “will return in the history of Bulgarian football as one of his biggest supporters.”
Bulgaria nightmare of the Blues in 1993. Ivanov played as sweeper in the national team including the star striker Hristo Stoichkov and Yordan Lechkov medium, which moved up to fourth in the World 1994 the United States, especially after beating Argentina, Mexico and Germany. In qualifying for this tournament, Bulgaria had eliminated France in the last minute of the last match at the Parc des Princes (1-2), one of the biggest fiascos in the history of French football.
Video of France-Bulgaria (1-2) in FIFA World Cup 1994:
A monument of Bulgarian football. long captain and central defender brought the Bulgarian jersey 77 times from 1988 to 1998, scoring six goals. Ivanov was triple champion of Bulgaria and winner of the National Cup with CSKA Sofia, before winning the Austrian championship in 1996 with Rapid Vienna. The same year he was a finalist of the European Cup Winners’ Cup with Rapid, against Paris SG.
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