Dimitar Vasev (; born 10 September 1965) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n former football player and

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lastly leading

Septemvri Sofia Septemvri () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the Second League, the second tier of Bulgarian football. Its home ground is the Septemvri Stadium, but due to its poor condition the ...

Career

Playing career

Born in

Sofia Sofia is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, largest city of Bulgaria. It is situated in the Sofia Valley at the foot of the Vitosha mountain, in the western part of the country. The city is built west of the Is ...

, Dimitar Vasev played in his career for

Lokomotiv Sofia FC Lokomotiv Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football. Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refounded in 2015, following ...

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv (), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Stadion Lokomotiv (Plovdiv), Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park and ha ...

, Chinese

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and Chivas El Paso Patriots.

Manager career

Lokomotiv Sofia

After being an assistant manager in his youth club

, on 31 May 2010 he was appointed as head manager of the team after leaving of

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, but was released from the club on 22 November 2010. On 7 April 2014 he was appointed as a manager for a second time taking the charge from Stefan Genov. He was chosen by the Association of Professional Footballers in Bulgaria for best manager of season 2014-15 after qualifying the team on 3rd place in A Group, but the team failed to gain license and later was dissolved.

Septemvri Sofia

On 8 June 2017 Vasev was announced as the new manager of

with

Hristo Arangelov Hristo Arangelov (; born 25 February 1978) is a Bulgarian former footballer, and now manager of FC Lovech. He spent his playing career at Pirin Blagoevgrad, Minyor Pernik, Marek Dupnitsa, Dunav Ruse, Hebar Pazardzhik, Spartak Varna and Balkan ...

, the caretaker manager after

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's tenure, as his first assistant. He was released from the club on 23 August 2017 for bad results, stepping down from the position in favor of

Managerial statistics

Honours

As a player

; Lokomotiv Sofia: *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup () is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournament's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matche ...

** Winner (1): 1994-95 *

A PFG The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

** Runner-up (1): 1994-95

As a manager

Best manager for the 2014/2015 A PFG season - chosen by the Association of Professional Footballers in Bulgaria

Personal life

His son

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is also a footballer who currently plays for

References

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