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| clubname = PFC Litex Lovech
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| name = Hugh Edwin Rodham
| fullname = PFC Litex Lovech AD
| nickname = The Lilacs
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| founded = 1921
| birth_date = [[1950]]
| ground = [[Lovech Stadium]]
| birth_place = [[Chicago, Illinois]]
| capacity = 7,000
| death_date =
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| honorary president = {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Pat Sharp]]
| other_names =
| chairman = {{flagicon|BUL}} Grisha Gantchev
| known_for = Brother of [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]]; Senate candidate
| manager = {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Stanimir Stoilov]]
| occupation =
| league = [[TBI A Football Group]]
| spouse = Maria Victoria Arias
| season = [[A PFG 2007-08|2007-08]]
| position = 3rd
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'''Hugh Edwin Rodham''' (born 1950<ref>[http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43 "First Lady Biography: Hillary Clinton"]. Accessed via Google cache July 10, 2007.</ref>) is an [[United States|American]] [[lawyer]], [[businessman]] and [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] [[politician]] who is the brother of [[New York]] [[United States Senator|Senator]] and former [[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]] [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]].
'''PFC Litex Lovech''' ({{lang-bg|ПФК Литекс (Ловеч)}}) is a [[Bulgaria]]n football club from the town of [[Lovech]].


== Early life and education ==
Litex takes part in the [[Bulgarian A Professional Football Group|TBI A Football Group]]. The team plays its home games at the local [[Lovech Stadium]] with 7,000 seats, electric lighting and permission to stage international matches. Litex has twice been Bulgarian champion and three times Bulgarian Cup winner.
Rodham is the son of [[Hugh E. Rodham|Hugh Ellsworth Rodham]], a [[Chicago]] [[textile]] wholesaler, and [[Dorothy Howell Rodham|Dorothy Emma Howell]]. He has one younger brother, [[Tony Rodham]]. Like Hillary, he was born in Chicago but grew up in suburban [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. He graduated from [[Maine South High School]] in 1968, playing on the [[American football|football]], [[wrestling]], and [[baseball]] teams.<ref name="cst022301">{{cite news | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20010223/ai_n13900533 | title=Politics thicker than blood? | author=Lynn Sweet | publisher=The Chicago Sun-Times | date=[[2001-02-23]] | accessdate=2007-07-08}}</ref> Like his father, Rodham attended [[Pennsylvania State University]], graduating in 1972 with a [[Bachelor of Science]] degree from the College of Health and Human Development. While attending Penn State he was backup [[quarterback]] on the [[Penn State Nittany Lions football]] team.<ref name="cnnbio">{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/candidates/democrat/clinton/rodham.shtml | title=The Rodham Family Biography | accessdate = 2007-07-08}}</ref> He served in the [[Peace Corps]] in [[Colombia]]<ref name="cnnbio"/> for over a year, training [[teacher]]s; he later called it the most rewarding experience of his life.<ref name="cnn022401">[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/24/lklw.00.html "Looking Back on Interviews With the Rodhams and Roger Clinton"], ''[[Larry King Live]]'', February 24, 2001. Accessed July 11, 2007.</ref> He then gained advanced degrees in [[education studies|education]] and [[law school|law]] at the [[University of Arkansas]],<!-- Fayetteville or Little Rock? don't know --><ref name="cnnbio"/> the latter occurring while [[Bill Clinton]] was governor of the state.<ref name="cst022301"/>


== Honours ==
== Public defender ==
Rodham moved to [[Miami]], where he began to practice [[criminal law]];<ref name="cnnbio"/> from around 1980 he became a [[public defender]] in [[Dade County, Florida|Dade County]].<ref name="cnn022401"/><ref name="nyt042397">Barry Meier, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505E2DD133EF930A15757C0A961958260 " First Brother-in-Law Has Tobacco Talks Role"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 23, 1997. Accessed July 10, 2007.</ref> Rodham married Maria Victoria Arias, a [[Cuba]]n immigrant lawyer whom he met while she was interning at the public defender's office, in 1986; they lived in [[Coral Gables, Florida]].<ref name="cnnbio"/><ref name="cst022301"/>
'''[[Bulgarian A Professional Football Group]]'''
*Champions - 1997&ndash;98, 1998&ndash;99


In 1989 the groundbreaking, much imitated [[Miami Drug Court]] was started by [[State Attorney]] [[Janet Reno]]<ref name="cnnbio"/><ref name="cst022301"/> to combat the [[cocaine|crack cocaine]] epidemic of the time; it sought to find give nonviolent drug users and addicts structured programs to overcome addiction, often in lieu of a jail sentence. Rodham became Assistant Public Defender in the court.<ref name="cnn022201">[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/22/ip.00.html "Hillary Clinton Addresses Presidential Pardons; Are Clinton Controversies Stifling Bush Agenda?"], [[CNN.com]], February 22, 2001. Accessed July 11, 2007.</ref> In this work Rodham was praised by local officials for effective, tireless work for long hours at low wages;<ref name="cnn022201"/> Rodham himself would later say, "Public Defenders are the last bastion for liberty ... we provide a strong defense for every citizen accused."<ref name="cnn022401"/> Reno would later credit Rodham for making the Drug Court a success: "That drug court could never have been established without the cooperation of the public defender ... [who] was a fellow by the name of Hugh Rodham, the assistant public defender. And we didn't know who Hugh Rodham was in those days, but one thing he did was get his clients in the back room, and every now and then you could hear him raise his voice and tell them to get with it and let's go. ... He was assiduous in protecting his clients' rights, but he was also extraordinarily helpful in making sure his clients understood that here was a real chance to solve their problems."<ref name="doj">[http://www.usdoj.gov/archive/ag/speeches/1998/0309_agthf.htm "Town Hall Forum with the Attorney General"], [[U.S. Department of Justice]], March 9, 1998. Accessed July 11, 2007.</ref>
'''[[Bulgarian Cup]]'''
*Winners - 2001, 2004, 2008
*Runners-up - 1999, 2003, 2007


In 1993, Hugh Rodham and his brother Tony ignited a small controversy when they tried to solicit corporate donations for Clinton's inaugural parties; they dropped the effort after a public outcry.<ref name="time012593">Priscilla Painton, [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,977542-1,00.html "Guess Who's Paying for Dinner"], ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', January 25, 1993. Accessed July 19, 2007.</ref>
'''Bulgarian League Cup'''
Once the Clintons entered the White House, Rodham became a sometime [[golf]]ing buddy of the President<ref name="time022201">{{cite news | url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,100329,00.html | title=The Rumpled, Ragtag Career of Hugh Rodham | author=Jessica Reaves | publisher=Time Magazine | date=[[2002-02-22]] | accessdate=2006-03-26}}</ref> and he and Maria often joined family get-togethers at [[Camp David]].<ref name="lh">[[Hillary Rodham Clinton]], ''[[Living History]]'', [[Simon & Schuster]], 2003, ISBN 0-7432-2224-5, plate B-15.</ref> When Clinton was having trouble with his cabinet nominations, Rodham recommended Reno to the president for appointment as [[U.S. Attorney General]].<ref name="cnn110199">Viveca Novak and Jay Branegan, [http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/10/25/brothers.html "Are Hillary's brothers driving off course?"], [[CNN.com]], November 1, 1999. Accessed July 10, 2007.</ref><ref name="cst022301"/>
*Runners-Up - 1997


== Politics, hazelnuts, and pardons ==
'''[[Bulgarian Supercup]]'''
Rodham left the public defenders office to run for the [[United States Senate]] in [[Florida]] in 1994. He won the [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic Party]] nomination by defeating Mike Wiley, a [[talk radio]] personality and advocate of [[UFO conspiracy theories]], by a margin of 58 to 42 percent in a [[Two-round system|runoff election]],<ref name="time022201"/><ref name="NYT10051994">
*Runners-Up - 2004, 2007, 2008
{{cite news
| title = Florida Vote Goes to Brother Of First Lady
| author =
| publisher = [[New York Times]]
| date = [[October 5]], [[1994]]
| accessdate = 2008-01-29
| url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E6D9153DF936A35753C1A962958260
}} </ref> after earlier finishing first in a four-person primary field with 34 percent.<ref name="NYT10051994"/> After the first primary, the third-place finisher, flamboyant Miami lawyer and perennial losing candidate [[Ellis Rubin]],<ref name="NewsMax10162000"/> joined forces with Rodham as an "senior executive consultant" and hatchet man.<ref name="mh092294">{{cite news | url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&p_theme=mh&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=hugh%20rodham%20ellis%20rubin%20mike%20wiley%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(hugh%20rodham%20ellis%20rubin%20mike%20wiley)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no | title=Rubin Joins Rodham Campaign, Rips Wiley | author=Tom Fielder | work=[[The Miami Herald]] | date=[[1994-09-22]] | format=fee required}}</ref> In the presence of Rodham at a press conference, Rubin levelled the accusation that Wiley was hiding his [[Jewish]] faith by changing his name from his birth name, Michael Schreiber,<ref name="NYT10051994"/><ref name="NewsMax10162000">
{{cite news
| title = More Anti-Semitism in Hillary's Closet
| author =
| publisher = [[NewsMax]]
| date = [[October 16]], [[2000]]
| accessdate = 2008-01-29
| url = http://archive.newsmax.com/scripts/showinside.pl?a=2000/10/15/230026
}} </ref> and that Wiley "changed his name before the campaign to deceive voters about his Jewish religion." Wiley accordingly refused to endorse Rodham after the runoff.<ref name="NYT10051994"/> Rodham then lost by a 70%-30% margin to incumbent Senator [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] [[Connie Mack III]] in the general election.<ref name="cnnbio"/> Although Bill and Hillary Clinton both campaigned for him, his organization was unable to take advantage of their help,<ref name="nyt101694">Michael Wines, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02EFDE123CF935A25753C1A962958260 "Clinton Finds Few Listeners at Rally in Miami"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 16, 1994. Accessed July 10, 2007.</ref> he had few funds, almost no television commercials, and little support from the Florida Democratic party establishment in [[United States Senate elections, 1994|a year that saw Republican gains everywhere]].<ref name="cnnbio"/><ref name="cst022301"/> After the election, Rubin switched allegiance again and charged Rodham with election law violations in the first primary; the [[Federal Elections Commission]] eventually dismissed the allegations.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=MH&p_theme=mh&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=%22hugh%20rodham%22%20%22ellis%20rubin%22%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22hugh%20rodham%22%20%22ellis%20rubin%22)&xcal_numdocs=20&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no | title=FEC Dismisses Allegations Against Rodham Campaign | author=Tom Fielder | work=[[The Miami Herald]] | date=[[1996-04-06]] | format=fee required}}</ref> Rodham subsequently tried to unseat the Dade County Democratic Party Chairman; after losing that badly, he disappeared from the Florida political scene.<ref name="cst022301"/>


Rodham tried his hand at hosting a syndicated [[talk radio]] show around 1996.<ref name="cnnbio"/><ref name="cnn022401"/> During 1995 through 1997 Rodham started working on a very large [[tobacco lawsuit]] with other attorneys; observers were puzzled as to Rodham's involvement, given his limited experience in the area, and speculated that [[influence peddling]] might be the reason.<ref name="nyt042397"/><ref name="cst022301"/> The massive case eventually failed to gain Congressional approval.<ref name="time022201"/>
== History ==
The football club of the town of Lovech was founded in [[1921 in football (soccer)|1921]] under the name ''Hisarya''. The first official game was held in [[1923 in football (soccer)|1923]].


In 1999, Hugh and brother [[Tony Rodham]] entered into a $118 million venture to grow and export [[hazelnuts]] from the [[Republic of Georgia]].<ref name="time022201"/> The [[U.S. State Department]] and [[National Security Advisor]] [[Sandy Berger]] became upset, however, when the Rodhams' local business connection in [[Batumi]] turned out to be [[Aslan Abashidze]], a major political opponent of Georgian President [[Eduard Shevardnadze]], then a key U.S. ally in the region.<ref name="cnn110199"/><ref name="time022201"/><ref name="mnt">[http://bestof.miaminewtimes.com/bestof/award.php?award=15376 "Best Local Boy Gone Bad (2001)"], ''[[Miami New Times]]''. Accessed July 10, 2007.</ref> After initial resistance,<ref name="cnn110199"/> Berger and the Clintons prevailed upon the Rodham brothers to drop the deal.<ref name="time022201"/><ref name="cst022301"/> Hugh Rodham stated that he was only acting as a lawyer for the venture and did not have money invested in it.<ref name="cnn110199"/>
The club changed its name several times over the years, before becoming ''Osum'' in [[1979 in football (soccer)|1979]]. Under that name the club played constantly in the [[Bulgarian Second Division]] and was close to promotion several times, before finally achieving in [[1994 in football (soccer)|1994]] under the name ''LEX'' (the sponsoring company at the time) after finishing in 1st position.


Episodes such as these led Hillary Clinton's White House staff to refer to Hugh and Tony as "the Brothers Rodham",<ref name="nyt022301">Todd S. Purdum, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE3DE1339F930A15751C0A9679C8B63 "Siblings Who Often Emerge In an Unflattering Spotlight"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 23, 2001. Accessed July 28, 2007.</ref> extending the American tradition of [[List of noted U.S. presidential relatives|troublesome presidential siblings]] to the [[brother-in-law]] category;<ref name="cnn110199"/> one senior White House official would be quoted as saying, "You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf."<ref name="nyt022301"/>
The [[A PFG 1994-95|first season in the Premier League]] was a kind of success for a club like LEX, finishing 11th after scoring victories over the teams of [[PFC CSKA Sofia|CSKA]] (1:0), [[Slavia Sofia]] (1:0) and [[Lokomotiv Sofia]] (1:0), which were some of the best teams in Bulgaria at that time.


As the [[Clinton administration]] came to a close in early 2001, it was discovered that Hugh Rodham received around $400,000 for legal services regarding gaining the Presidential pardon of fraudulent businessman [[Glenn Braswell]] and the sentence commutation of drug trafficker [[Carlos Vignali]].<ref name="cnn022201">[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/22/bn.04.html "Pardon Controversies Deepen With Involvement of Hugh Rodham"], [[CNN.com]], February 22, 2001. Accessed April 8, 2007.</ref> While legal experts said that Rodham may well not have done anything wrong, the appearance of possible impropriety certainly existed.<ref name="cnn022201"/> Moreoever, coming while the [[Bill Clinton pardons controversy]] was already in full force, this was a further embarrassment for the former administration and even got the attention of the Congressional [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform|House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]].<ref name="cst022301"/> Hillary Clinton, now a newly-sworn-in Senator, said, "He's my brother. I love my brother ... I'm just extremely disappointed in this terrible misjudgment that he made ... I knew nothing about my brother's involvement in these pardons. I knew nothing about his taking money for his involvement."<ref name="cst022301"/> Both Clintons pressured Rodham to return the $400,000, which he promptly did.<ref name="time022201"/> During this time, Rodham additionally collected media criticism for being overweight and a poor dresser.<ref name="time022201"/><ref name="mnt"/>
The next season was not so successful and the team, renamed ''Lovech'' in the meantime, was relegated back to the Second Division. This was the turning point in the history of the club. Petrol businessman and citizen of Lovech [[Grisha Ganchev]] bought the club and renamed it ''Litex''. Almost all of the current players were released and a significant number of valuable players were signed. The team won first place without difficulty, finishing more than 10 points ahead of the second team in the table and qualifying for the First Division. In the same season Litex reached the quarter-final of the Bulgarian Cup and the final of the Bulgarian League Cup, which they unfortunately lost after a 2:2 draw in regular time and a penalty shoot-out. Litex also won against every team from the top of the table of the Bulgarian First Division (either in friendly matches or cup matches).


Subsequently, Hugh Rodham stayed out of the public eye. When [[Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, 2008|his sister's 2008 presidential campaign]] came to the family summer home of [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]] for the [[Pennsylvania Democratic primary, 2008|state primary]], he hosted a reception for campaign workers.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10scranton.html | title=Pennsylvania Ties Could Help Clinton | author=Katherine Q. Seelye | publisher=''[[The New York Times]]'' | date=2008-03-10 | accessdate=2008-03-14}}</ref>
In [[1997 in football (soccer)|1997]], Litex were promoted for a second time to the First Division and immediately became Bulgarian champions, finishing the season 5 points ahead of the second-placed [[Levski Sofia]]. This was unprecedented in Bulgarian football history. The striker of the team [[Dimcho Belyakov]] became top goalscorer with his 21 goals during the season. Midfielder [[Stoycho Stoilov]] received the Best League Player award. The club's first participation in European club tournaments was also promising, with Litex eliminating the [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Halmstads BK]] (2:0 and 1:2) and reaching the second qualifying round (but being knocked out by [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]]). The team won the Bulgarian Championship for the second successive time a year later.


== See also ==
Litex Lovech have also won the Bulgarian Cup three times — 2001 (beating the team of [[Velbazhd Kyustendil]] 1:0 in the final match after extra time) and 2004 (a win over CSKA after 2:2 in the regular time and a penalty shootout)and 2008 a win over [[Cherno More Varna]] (1:0)
* [[List of noted U.S. presidential relatives]]


== References ==
Litex is also the team which inflicted the biggest defeat on CSKA Sofia — 8:0 in Lovech in the autumn of 1998. The club is honoured as the first Bulgarian team to win against a German team in Germany — 2:0 over [[Union Berlin]] in the Second Round of the [[UEFA Cup]] in October 2001.
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The biggest win in Europe so far is 7:0 over [[FK Željezničar Sarajevo|NK Željezničar]] in Lovech in August 2004.


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In early August 2007, Litex signed a three-year sponsorship and advertising contract with [[Bulgaria]]n [[mobile]] operator [[GLOBUL]] and started the 2007/2008 season with the [[logo]] of the mobile service [[i-mode]] on their jerseys. In December 2007, Litex was the first Bulgarian club to have branded mobile phone game- Litex Football.
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Before 2008/2009 season Litex lost 0:1 the Bulgarian Super cup final against [[CSKA Sofia]]. The wining goal for the army team was scored by [[Kiril Kotev]] in the 65th minute. In this way Litex lost for the third time a Super cup match. The previous two ones were vs. [[Lokomotiv Plovdiv]] (0:1) and [[Levski Sofia]] (1:2).
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Litex were drawn against [[Aston Villa]] of the [[English Premier League]] in the first knockout round of the [[2008/09 UEFA Cup]], Aston Villa won the first leg 3-1 and the return leg finished 1-1 at [[Villa Park]].
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=== European cup history ===
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|[[UEFA Cup 2001-02|2001/02]]
|[[UEFA Cup]]
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|[[Longford Town F.C.|Longford Town]]
|2-0
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|3-1
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|1
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|[[FK Inter Bratislava|Inter Bratislava]]
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|[[1. FC Union Berlin|Union Berlin]]
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|{{flagicon|Greece}}
|[[AEK Athens FC|AEK]]
|1-1
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|3-4
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|[[UEFA Cup 2002-03|2002/03]]
|[[UEFA Cup]]
|Q
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|[[FK Atlantas]]
|6-0
|2-1
|8-1
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|1
|{{flagicon|Greece}}
|[[Panathinaikos FC|Panathinaikos]]
|0-1
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|[[UEFA Cup 2003-04|2003/04]]
|[[UEFA Cup]]
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|{{flagicon|Moldova}}
|[[FC Zimbru Chişinău|Zimbru]]
|0-0
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|0-2
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|[[UEFA Cup 2004-05|2004/05]]
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|7-0
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|[[Grazer AK|GAK]]
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|[[NK Rijeka]]
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|[[Middlesbrough F.C.|Middlesbrough]]
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|[[RC Strasbourg]]
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|[[UEFA Cup]]
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|{{flagicon|Slovenia}}
|[[FC Koper]]
|5-0
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|{{flagicon|Cyprus}}
|[[AC Omonia]]
|2-1
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|[[Maccabi Haifa F.C.|Maccabi Haifa]]
|1-3
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|[[UEFA Cup 2007-08|2007/08]]
|[[UEFA Cup]]
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|{{flagicon|Malta}}
|[[Sliema Wanderers F.C.|Sliema Wanderers]]
|4-0
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|7-0
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|[[KS Besa Kavajë|KS Besa]]
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|6-0
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|1
|{{flagicon|Germany}}
|[[Hamburger SV]]
|0-1
|1-3
|1-4
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|[[UEFA Cup 2008-09|2008/09]]
|[[UEFA Cup]]
|2Q
|{{flagicon|Israel}}
|[[Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona F.C.|Hapoel Kiryat Shmona]]
|0-0
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|1
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|[[Aston Villa]]
|1-3
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== Stadium ==
Litex Lovech play their home games at Lovech Stadium, a multi-use stadium in Lovech. Built in 1962 the ground underwent a total reconstruction in 1999 and was brought to a suitable stand to host international matches, one of only four in Bulgaria. It has approximately 7,000 seats with pitch dimensions of 110 x 82 metres. The record attendance is 12,500 for a game against [[Levski Sofia]] in October 1998.

== Current squad ==
''As of August 2008''

{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=1|nat=Serbia|name=[[Uroš Golubović]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=2|nat=France|name=[[Alexandre Barthe]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=3|nat=France|name=[[Cédric Cambon]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=5|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Mihail Venkov]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=6|nat=France|name=[[Alexis Bertin]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=7|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Strahil Popov]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=8|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Wellington Brito da Silva|Tom]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=9|nat=Brazil|name=[[Eduardo Du Bala]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=Brazil|name=[[Sandrinho]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Emil Angelov]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Todor Todorov (goalkeeper)|Todor Todorov]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Ventsislav Bengyuzov]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=16|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Stanislav Manolev]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=France|name=[[Jérémy Acedo]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Krum Bibishkov]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=19|nat=France|name=[[Wilfried Niflore]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Georgi Pashov]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Alexander Tsvetkov (footballer)|Alexander Tsvetkov]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Plamen Nikolov (defender)|Plamen Nikolov]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Petar Zanev]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=26|nat=Brazil|name=[[Carlos Eduardo de Souza Tomé|Dudu]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Momchil Cvetanov]]|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=29|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Radoslav Dimitrov]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=30|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Evgeni Aleksandrov]]|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=32|nat=Bulgaria|name=[[Ivelin Popov]]|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=33|nat=Bosnia and Herzegovina|name=[[Džemal Berberović]]|pos=DF}}
{{Fs end}}
''For recent transfers see [[List of Bulgarian football transfers 2008-09]].''

== Notable players ==
For a complete list of Litex players, see [[:Category:PFC Litex Lovech players]]
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; Bulgaria {{flagicon|Bulgaria}}
* [[Georgi Denev]]
* [[Petar Hubchev]]
* [[Radostin Kishishev]]
* [[Dimcho Belyakov]]
* [[Svetoslav Todorov]]
* [[Rosen Kirilov]]
* [[Zoran Janković (footballer)|Zoran Janković]]
* [[Zlatomir Zagorcic]]
* [[Stoycho Stoilov]]
* [[Stefan Kolev]]
* [[Hristo Yovov]]
* [[Zhivko Zhelev]]
* [[Zdravko Zdravkov]]
* [[Ivaylo Petkov]]
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; Albania {{flagicon|Albania}}
* [[Altin Haxhi]]
* [[Alban Bushi]]

; Argentina {{flagicon|Argentina}}
* [[Claudio Fernando Graf|Claudio Graf]]

; Brazil {{flagicon|Brazil}}
* [[Tiago Silva]]
* [[João Soares de Almeida Neto|Joãozinho]]

; France {{flagicon|France}}
[[Jean-Philippe Caillet]]

; Macedonia {{flagicon|Macedonia}}
* [[Robert Popov]]

; Morocco {{flagicon|Morocco}}
* [[Mourad Hdiouad]]
* [[Abdelkarim Kissi]]

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; Romania {{flagicon|Romania}}
* [[Eugen Trică]]
* [[Florin Prunea]]
* Valeriu Rachita

; Serbia {{flagicon|Serbia}}
* [[Nebojša Jelenković]]

; Slovenia {{flagicon|Slovenia}}
* [[Milivoje Novakovič]]

; Venezuela {{flagicon|Venezuela}}
* [[Alejandro Cichero]]
{{col-end}}

== External links ==
* [http://www.pfclitex.com/ Official website]
* [http://litex.dankofff.net/ Another Unofficial Website in Bulgarian]
* [http://clubs.bul-foot.org/html/a/a/Litex(Lovech).htm Bulgarian clubs - Litex (Lovech)]
* [http://forums.data.bg/viewtopic.php?t=1651045 Fan Тheme (composition) ]

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Hugh Edwin Rodham
Born1950
Chicago, Illinois
Known forBrother of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Senate candidate
SpouseMaria Victoria Arias

Hugh Edwin Rodham (born 1950[1]) is an American lawyer, businessman and Democratic Party politician who is the brother of New York Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Early life and education

Rodham is the son of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, a Chicago textile wholesaler, and Dorothy Emma Howell. He has one younger brother, Tony Rodham. Like Hillary, he was born in Chicago but grew up in suburban Park Ridge, Illinois. He graduated from Maine South High School in 1968, playing on the football, wrestling, and baseball teams.[2] Like his father, Rodham attended Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Health and Human Development. While attending Penn State he was backup quarterback on the Penn State Nittany Lions football team.[3] He served in the Peace Corps in Colombia[3] for over a year, training teachers; he later called it the most rewarding experience of his life.[4] He then gained advanced degrees in education and law at the University of Arkansas,[3] the latter occurring while Bill Clinton was governor of the state.[2]

Public defender

Rodham moved to Miami, where he began to practice criminal law;[3] from around 1980 he became a public defender in Dade County.[4][5] Rodham married Maria Victoria Arias, a Cuban immigrant lawyer whom he met while she was interning at the public defender's office, in 1986; they lived in Coral Gables, Florida.[3][2]

In 1989 the groundbreaking, much imitated Miami Drug Court was started by State Attorney Janet Reno[3][2] to combat the crack cocaine epidemic of the time; it sought to find give nonviolent drug users and addicts structured programs to overcome addiction, often in lieu of a jail sentence. Rodham became Assistant Public Defender in the court.[6] In this work Rodham was praised by local officials for effective, tireless work for long hours at low wages;[6] Rodham himself would later say, "Public Defenders are the last bastion for liberty ... we provide a strong defense for every citizen accused."[4] Reno would later credit Rodham for making the Drug Court a success: "That drug court could never have been established without the cooperation of the public defender ... [who] was a fellow by the name of Hugh Rodham, the assistant public defender. And we didn't know who Hugh Rodham was in those days, but one thing he did was get his clients in the back room, and every now and then you could hear him raise his voice and tell them to get with it and let's go. ... He was assiduous in protecting his clients' rights, but he was also extraordinarily helpful in making sure his clients understood that here was a real chance to solve their problems."[7]

In 1993, Hugh Rodham and his brother Tony ignited a small controversy when they tried to solicit corporate donations for Clinton's inaugural parties; they dropped the effort after a public outcry.[8] Once the Clintons entered the White House, Rodham became a sometime golfing buddy of the President[9] and he and Maria often joined family get-togethers at Camp David.[10] When Clinton was having trouble with his cabinet nominations, Rodham recommended Reno to the president for appointment as U.S. Attorney General.[11][2]

Politics, hazelnuts, and pardons

Rodham left the public defenders office to run for the United States Senate in Florida in 1994. He won the Democratic Party nomination by defeating Mike Wiley, a talk radio personality and advocate of UFO conspiracy theories, by a margin of 58 to 42 percent in a runoff election,[9][12] after earlier finishing first in a four-person primary field with 34 percent.[12] After the first primary, the third-place finisher, flamboyant Miami lawyer and perennial losing candidate Ellis Rubin,[13] joined forces with Rodham as an "senior executive consultant" and hatchet man.[14] In the presence of Rodham at a press conference, Rubin levelled the accusation that Wiley was hiding his Jewish faith by changing his name from his birth name, Michael Schreiber,[12][13] and that Wiley "changed his name before the campaign to deceive voters about his Jewish religion." Wiley accordingly refused to endorse Rodham after the runoff.[12] Rodham then lost by a 70%-30% margin to incumbent Senator Republican Connie Mack III in the general election.[3] Although Bill and Hillary Clinton both campaigned for him, his organization was unable to take advantage of their help,[15] he had few funds, almost no television commercials, and little support from the Florida Democratic party establishment in a year that saw Republican gains everywhere.[3][2] After the election, Rubin switched allegiance again and charged Rodham with election law violations in the first primary; the Federal Elections Commission eventually dismissed the allegations.[16] Rodham subsequently tried to unseat the Dade County Democratic Party Chairman; after losing that badly, he disappeared from the Florida political scene.[2]

Rodham tried his hand at hosting a syndicated talk radio show around 1996.[3][4] During 1995 through 1997 Rodham started working on a very large tobacco lawsuit with other attorneys; observers were puzzled as to Rodham's involvement, given his limited experience in the area, and speculated that influence peddling might be the reason.[5][2] The massive case eventually failed to gain Congressional approval.[9]

In 1999, Hugh and brother Tony Rodham entered into a $118 million venture to grow and export hazelnuts from the Republic of Georgia.[9] The U.S. State Department and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger became upset, however, when the Rodhams' local business connection in Batumi turned out to be Aslan Abashidze, a major political opponent of Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, then a key U.S. ally in the region.[11][9][17] After initial resistance,[11] Berger and the Clintons prevailed upon the Rodham brothers to drop the deal.[9][2] Hugh Rodham stated that he was only acting as a lawyer for the venture and did not have money invested in it.[11]

Episodes such as these led Hillary Clinton's White House staff to refer to Hugh and Tony as "the Brothers Rodham",[18] extending the American tradition of troublesome presidential siblings to the brother-in-law category;[11] one senior White House official would be quoted as saying, "You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf."[18]

As the Clinton administration came to a close in early 2001, it was discovered that Hugh Rodham received around $400,000 for legal services regarding gaining the Presidential pardon of fraudulent businessman Glenn Braswell and the sentence commutation of drug trafficker Carlos Vignali.[6] While legal experts said that Rodham may well not have done anything wrong, the appearance of possible impropriety certainly existed.[6] Moreoever, coming while the Bill Clinton pardons controversy was already in full force, this was a further embarrassment for the former administration and even got the attention of the Congressional House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.[2] Hillary Clinton, now a newly-sworn-in Senator, said, "He's my brother. I love my brother ... I'm just extremely disappointed in this terrible misjudgment that he made ... I knew nothing about my brother's involvement in these pardons. I knew nothing about his taking money for his involvement."[2] Both Clintons pressured Rodham to return the $400,000, which he promptly did.[9] During this time, Rodham additionally collected media criticism for being overweight and a poor dresser.[9][17]

Subsequently, Hugh Rodham stayed out of the public eye. When his sister's 2008 presidential campaign came to the family summer home of Scranton, Pennsylvania for the state primary, he hosted a reception for campaign workers.[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "First Lady Biography: Hillary Clinton". Accessed via Google cache July 10, 2007.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Lynn Sweet (2001-02-23). "Politics thicker than blood?". The Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-07-08. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Rodham Family Biography". Retrieved 2007-07-08.
  4. ^ a b c d "Looking Back on Interviews With the Rodhams and Roger Clinton", Larry King Live, February 24, 2001. Accessed July 11, 2007.
  5. ^ a b Barry Meier, " First Brother-in-Law Has Tobacco Talks Role", The New York Times, April 23, 1997. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  6. ^ a b c d "Hillary Clinton Addresses Presidential Pardons; Are Clinton Controversies Stifling Bush Agenda?", CNN.com, February 22, 2001. Accessed July 11, 2007. Cite error: The named reference "cnn022201" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  7. ^ "Town Hall Forum with the Attorney General", U.S. Department of Justice, March 9, 1998. Accessed July 11, 2007.
  8. ^ Priscilla Painton, "Guess Who's Paying for Dinner", Time, January 25, 1993. Accessed July 19, 2007.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h Jessica Reaves (2002-02-22). "The Rumpled, Ragtag Career of Hugh Rodham". Time Magazine. Retrieved 2006-03-26. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. ^ Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History, Simon & Schuster, 2003, ISBN 0-7432-2224-5, plate B-15.
  11. ^ a b c d e Viveca Novak and Jay Branegan, "Are Hillary's brothers driving off course?", CNN.com, November 1, 1999. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  12. ^ a b c d "Florida Vote Goes to Brother Of First Lady". New York Times. October 5, 1994. Retrieved 2008-01-29. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. ^ a b "More Anti-Semitism in Hillary's Closet". NewsMax. October 16, 2000. Retrieved 2008-01-29. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ^ Tom Fielder (1994-09-22). "Rubin Joins Rodham Campaign, Rips Wiley" (fee required). The Miami Herald. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  15. ^ Michael Wines, "Clinton Finds Few Listeners at Rally in Miami", The New York Times, October 16, 1994. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  16. ^ Tom Fielder (1996-04-06). "FEC Dismisses Allegations Against Rodham Campaign" (fee required). The Miami Herald. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  17. ^ a b "Best Local Boy Gone Bad (2001)", Miami New Times. Accessed July 10, 2007.
  18. ^ a b Todd S. Purdum, "Siblings Who Often Emerge In an Unflattering Spotlight", The New York Times, February 23, 2001. Accessed July 28, 2007.
  19. ^ Katherine Q. Seelye (2008-03-10). "Pennsylvania Ties Could Help Clinton". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-14. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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