Trifon Ivanov

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Trifon Ivanov
Personnel
birthday July 27, 1965
place of birth Lipnitsa ,  Bulgaria
date of death February 13, 2016
Place of death Samovodene ,  Bulgaria
size 181 cm
position Center-back , Libero
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1988 FK Etar Veliko Tarnovo 62 (7)
1988-1990 CSKA Sofia 64 (8)
1990-1991 Betis Seville 54 (9)
1991-1992 → FK Etar Veliko Tarnowo (loan) 12 (1)
1992 → CSKA Sofia (loan) 5 (1)
1994-1995 Neuchâtel Xamax 27 (3)
1995 → CSKA Sofia (loan) 7 (0)
1996-1997 SK Rapid Vienna 53 (7)
1997 FK Austria Vienna 11 (0)
1998 → CSKA Sofia (loan) 10 (1)
1999-2001 Floridsdorfer AC 52 (8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1988-1998 Bulgaria 75 (7)
1 Only league games are given.

Trifon Ivanov ( Bulgarian Трифон Иванов ; born July 27, 1965 in Lipnitsa , Veliko Tarnovo Oblast ; † February 13, 2016 in Samovodene , Veliko Tarnovo Oblast) was a Bulgarian football player . It was nicknamed the Bulgarian Wolf because of its appearance .

career

society

Ivanov began his football career at the age of 18 at his hometown club Etar Tarnowo , where he played with Krassimir Balakow . Before he played in his later regular position in the libero , he was mainly used in attack - this may also explain the fact that, much to the annoyance of some of his coaches, he temporarily forgot his defensive duties in individual games in order to rather attack himself .

Due to his good performance, he was soon committed to the Bulgarian club CSKA Sofia , where he had another prominent teammate at his side in Christo Stoitschkow . In 1991 Ivanov moved to Betis Sevilla in the Spanish Primera División for three years . Mainly criticized for his lack of discipline, he was sold to Neuchâtel Xamax in 1994 . His second season at the Swiss club was mainly characterized by the confrontation with his coach Gilbert Gress , whom he accused of ignorance about the sport of football, whereupon Ivanov had to leave and played again for CSKA Sofia for a few months.

In 1995 he came to Vienna with his wife and daughters and bought a house in Vienna-Floridsdorf. At the same time he moved to the club where he experienced his most successful period, the Austrian club SK Rapid Wien . In his first season he made the championship title with Rapid and made it to the European Cup final . His strong performances in the Champions League the following year even earned him a nomination for Europe's “Team of the Year”. But as well as Trifon Ivanov played in the Champions League, he played just as badly in some championship games and, as with Neuchatel, was particularly noticeable because of his lack of discipline, which deeply annoyed his coach Ernst Dokupil . When Rapid lost the championship-winning game against Salzburg Austria in 1997 and Ivanov saw the red card unnecessarily in the last minutes of the game , Dokupil threw the Bulgarians out of the team, despite a contract until 1998. By then he had been in 53 championship games (seven goals) and 17 European Cup games (three goals) for Rapid.

In order not to be deported for the rest of his contract with the Rapid Amateurs in the Vienna lower league, he quickly switched to FK Austria Vienna . But even there he was denied any further success, which is why he preferred to move back to his Bulgarian homeland to CSKA Sofia in order to prepare for the World Cup in France. His last year in Vienna he played in the Viennese lower league to enable his daughters to finish school. In order to avoid too many reporters and photographers this year, he moved into a larger apartment on Frömmlgasse (1210 Vienna). During this time he played for Floridsdorfer AC , where he finally ended his career in 2001.

National team

For Bulgaria Trifon Ivanov completed a total of 75 games between 1988 and 1998, in which he was able to score eight goals. In 1994 Ivanov and his Bulgarian teammates surprised the entire sporting world - traveling to the 1994 World Cup as a nobody team , they reached the semifinals and finally took fourth place. Ivanov's second participation in the World Cup ( France 1998 ) was less glorious: the football veterans Ivanov, Christo Stoitschkow and Emil Kostadinow played with each other one last time and delivered a more than poor performance, which also sealed the end of Bulgaria's golden football era.

After retirement

After the end of his career, Trifon Ivanov started building an Austrian petrol station chain in northern Bulgaria and founded four companies that dealt with the oil trade in Bulgaria. He died of a heart attack on February 13, 2016 at the age of 50, leaving behind his wife and two daughters.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rp-online.de: “Bulgarian Wolf” dies at the age of 50. Article from February 15, 2016
  2. ^ Trifon Iwanow died , page on wien.orf.at, accessed on February 14, 2016.
  3. ↑ Article: Business for Champions (in Bulgarian language)
  4. ↑ Извънредно: Почина Трифон Иванов . blitz.bg. February 13, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Ivanov, Trifon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Lipnitsa , Veliko Tarnovo Oblast , Bulgaria
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2016
Place of death Samovodene , Veliko Tarnovo Oblast , Bulgaria