Dimitar Penew

Dimitar Penew
Personnel
birthday	July 12, 1945
place of birth	Mirowjane ,  Bulgaria
size	176 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1959-1965	Sofia locomotive
1965-1977	CSKA Sofia
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1964-1976	Bulgaria	90 (2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1986-1991	CSKA Sofia
1991-1996	Bulgaria
1998-2000	CSKA Sofia
2003	Club coach in China
2007-2008	Bulgaria
2008-2009	CSKA Sofia
2011–2012	CSKA Sofia
1 Only league games are given.

Dimitar Penew ( Bulgarian Димитър Пенев ; born July 12, 1945 in Mirowjane , near Sofia ) is a Bulgarian football coach and former player.

player

Penew played for Lokomotiv Sofia from 1959 to 1964 , before he said goodbye to CSKA Sofia after winning his first Bulgarian championship . The cleaner played there for 13 years and had his most successful period. He won a total of seven national championships and five Soviet Army trophies with his team. He was used in 364 league games in which he scored 25 goals.

Penev played 90 times for the Bulgarian national team (two goals), 20 times as captain . With her he was able to qualify for three consecutive world championships. But in 1966 , 1970 and 1974 , the team did not get beyond the preliminary round.

In 1967 and 1971, Penew was named Footballer of the Year in Bulgaria .

Trainer

In 1984 Penew took over his first coaching position. After unsuccessful years in Kuwait, he became the coach of CSKA Sofia in 1986. With players like Christo Stoitschkow , Trifon Ivanov , Emil Kostadinow and his nephew Lyuboslaw Penew , he won three championships, national cups and Soviet Army trophies.

In 1991, Penew succeeded Ivan Vutsov as coach of the Bulgarian national team, which he had already coached for a game in 1989 as interim coach, but he led the team to the 1994 World Cup in the USA , where Bulgaria surprisingly came fourth. Two years later, the national team qualified for a European championship for the first time . After the end in the preliminary round, Penew handed over the coaching position to his previous assistant Christo Bonew .

In 1998 Penew worked a second time as a coach at CSKA Sofia. Although he won the national cup competition again in 1999, he was released six months later.

After the resignation of Christo Stoitschkow, the 62-year-old Penew took over the Bulgarian team again in 2007, but was replaced by Plamen Markow again in 2008 after narrowly missing out on qualifying for the European Championship .

Penew, who was also active in his coaching career at Spartak Varna and in Saudi Arabia , was recognized for his success as Bulgaria's coach of the 20th century. He is also a holder of the "Stara Planina" order (1st class) and an honorary citizen of the city of Sofia.

successes

• as a player
  • Bulgarian champion : 1964, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976
  • Soviet Army Cup : 1965, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974
  • Semi-finals in the 1966/67 European Cup
  • Bulgaria's Footballer of the Year : 1967, 1971

• as a trainer
  • Bulgarian champion : 1987, 1989, 1990
  • Bulgarian Cup : 1987, 1989, 1990, 1999
  • Soviet Army Cup : 1986, 1989, 1990
  • Semi-finals in the 1988/89 European Cup Winners' Cup
  • Semi-finals at the 1994 World Cup
  • Bulgaria's coach of the 20th century

Web links

• Dimitar Penew in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Dimitar Penew in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Football special edition WM 94
2. ↑ Kicker special issue EM 96