Ayan Sadakov

Ayan Sadakov
Ayan Sadakov, 2013
Personnel
birthday	September 26, 1961
place of birth	Plovdiv ,  Bulgaria
date of death	July 1, 2017
Place of death	Plovdiv ,  Bulgaria
size	174 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1977-1989	Locomotive Plovdiv	320 (111)
1989-1992	Belenenses Lisbon	48 (9)
1992-1994	Locomotive Plovdiv	31 (6)
1994-1996	Botev Plovdiv	20 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1981-1989	Bulgaria	80 (9)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008-2009	Locomotive Plovdiv
2011-2014	Bulgaria U-19
1 Only league games are given.

Ajan Sadakow (born September 26, 1961 in Plovdiv ; † July 1, 2017 ) was a Bulgarian football player and coach.

Athletic career

Sadakov began his career with Lokomotive Plovdiv in the late 1970s . Although the midfielder was relegated with the team in the summer of 1980 from the A Grupa , he became a selection player in the Bulgarian national team the following year . After his debut in the 3-0 defeat against Brazil in October 1981, he was a regular member of the national team in the following years.

In 1982, team captain Sadakov and his club were about to win the title when the team in the final of the Soviet Army Cup - the last time the European Cup Winners' Cup was played over this, from then on the participant was determined via the Bulgarian National Cup , which was reintroduced in 1980 - the one division The higher-ranking football club Lokomotive Sofia forced into extra time. Ultimately, he had to admit defeat with his club 1: 2. 1983 was all the more successful when after the renewed entry into the final for the Soviet Army Cup FK Tschirpan was defeated with a 3-1 final success and the club returned as the second division champions in the A Grupa. The climber missed the league as the table penultimate, but then immediately rose again.

At the end of the 1985/86 season , which Sadakow finished with Lokomotive Plovdiv in seventh place in the table, he was part of the Bulgarian national team at the 1986 World Cup . For the first time in twelve years, the team had qualified again for a tournament, where Sadakov had, among other things, participated in the 2-0 victory over the reigning European champions after goals from Nasko Sirakow and the future French professional Georgi Dimitrov . Third in the group behind eventual world champions Argentina and reigning world champions Italy , against whom they played 1: 1 at the start, the team reached the round of 16, in which they were eliminated by hosts Mexico . During the tournament, he had appeared in all four games.

Until the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1989, Sadakov Lokomotive remained loyal to Plovdiv before he moved to Portugal to Belenenses Lisbon . In 1992 he returned to Lokomotive Plovdiv, later he let his career end with local rival Botew Plovdiv . After the turn of the millennium he worked as a trainer for Lokomotiv Plovdiv.

Between 1981 and 1991 Sadakov made 80 international appearances for Bulgaria, with the midfielder scoring nine goals.

Web links

• Ajan Sadakow in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ajan Sadakow in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Стотици фенове, съотборници и приятели изпратиха Аян Садъков , gol.bg (Bulgarian)