Dimitar Dushkov Penev (, born 12 July 1945) is a Bulgarian

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coach and former player and central defender of

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sports Club of the Army'' ...

. He played 90 games for Bulgaria national team and scored two goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he also participated in three world cups for his national team in 1966, 1970 and 1974. He is Honorary President of

and semi-pro side Nottingham United FC.

Personal life

Penev is uncle of former Bulgarian international and

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coach

Lyuboslav Penev Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev (; born 31 August 1966) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player. Penev played as a forward for several clubs in Bulgaria and Spain. He started his career at CSKA Sofia in 1984, winning two B ...

Coaching career

Penev was manager of the Bulgaria national team during the

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, where his team reached the semi-finals and then lost the bronze medal game with

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. Throughout his career as manager he demonstrated excellence in both tactics and team psychology. Penev's most notable quality was his ability to work well with young players. During his career at CSKA Sofia he discovered a lot of previously unknown or little-known talented youths and used them as a basis for a domestically and internationally successful squad. Amongst them

Hristo Stoichkov Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov (; born 8 February 1966) is a Bulgarian former professional Association football, footballer and current football commentator for TUDN. A prolific Forward (association football), forward, he is widely regarded as the g ...

, Emil Kostadinov,

Martin Petrov Martin Petyov Petrov (; born 15 January 1979) is a Bulgarian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger, most notably for VfL Wolfsburg, VFL Wolfsburg, Atlético Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Manche ...

, Stiliyan Petrov and Dimitar Berbatov. On 30 July 2007, he was appointed manager of the Bulgaria national team for the second time. Last he was the manager of

, but on 6 March 2009 CSKA fired the coach – the Bulgarian team decided to sub him with his nephew

, former player of CSKA Sofia, Celta Vigo,

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and

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Relevant statistics

As of April 2007, Penev has been in charge of the Bulgaria national team for 55 matches in total (25 wins, 15 draws, 15 losses, with a goal difference of 88:60).Това е Димитър Пенев – Topsport.bg
Topsport.ibox.bg (25 April 2007). Retrieved on 21 July 2016.

Honours

Player

Lokomotiv Sofia * A Group: 1963–64 CSKA Sofia * A Group (7): 1965–66, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76 *

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1969 1969 ( MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

Manager

Bulgaria *

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: fourth place

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Penev, Dimitar 1945 births Living people Sportspeople from Sofia City Province Bulgarian men's footballers 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen Footballers from Sofia Men's association football defenders Bulgaria men's international footballers FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players PFC CSKA Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players 1966 FIFA World Cup players 1970 FIFA World Cup players 1974 FIFA World Cup players Bulgarian football managers 1994 FIFA World Cup managers UEFA Euro 1996 managers PFC CSKA Sofia managers Bulgaria national football team managers FC Spartak Varna managers Bulgarian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Kuwait Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Kuwait Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Expatriate football managers in China Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in China