Ivo Slavchev (born 21 January 1968) is a former

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 professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played as a

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. He was a squad member at the

1987 FIFA World Youth Championship The 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship took place in Chile from 10 to 25 October 1987. The 1987 championship was the 6th edition of the FIFA World Youth Championship and won for the first time by Yugoslavia. Remarkably, in the course of the tourn ...

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1968 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's youth international footballers Bulgaria men's under-21 international footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players FC Minyor Pernik players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players PFC CSKA Sofia players PFC Slavia Sofia players FC Marek Dupnitsa players OFC Akademik Svishtov players Men's association football midfielders Footballers from Pernik 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen {{Bulgaria-footy-bio-stub