Hristo Zlatinski (; born 22 January 1985) is a Bulgarian retired professional footballer and now manager of Ludogorets III.

Club career

Zlatinski started his career in his home town

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in the local team

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. In 2005, he joined

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 ...

. For two years in

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he played in 46 matches and scored 4 goals. In this period Zlatinski played also for the

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. In June 2007 he signed for three years with

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. In 2010 Zlatinski returned to Lokomotiv Plovdiv. At 18 June 2013, he joined Bulgarian champion

Ludogorets Razgrad Professional Football Club Ludogorets 1945 (), commonly known as Ludogorets Razgrad or simply Ludogorets, is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Razgrad, which currently competes in the First Professional Football League ...

. During the 2013/2014

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, he scored two goals with long-distance efforts - in the 1:0 win over

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. He became 3rd captain of the side and one of the leaders in the changing room. For entire season Zlatinski scored 12 goals in all competitions.

International career

Zlatinski received his first call-up to the senior team in Mihail Madanski's first game in charge of Bulgaria in October 2011. On 7 October he made his Bulgaria debut in a 3–0 friendly loss against

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Personal life

He is married to Vanya. They have two children - a daughter named Elia and a younger son Christian.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Ludogorets * Bulgarian A Group: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

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 ...

: 2013–14 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup () is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and the holder of the Bulgarian Cup at that time. ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Universitatea Craiova *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

: 2017–18 *

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runner-up:

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* * 1985 births Living people Footballers from Gotse Delchev Bulgarian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Bulgaria men's international footballers Bulgaria men's under-21 international footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Liga I players OFC Pirin Blagoevgrad players PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players PFC Ludogorets Razgrad players CS Universitatea Craiova players FCSB players POFC Botev Vratsa players Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania 21st-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy-midfielder-stub