Rosen Rosenov Kolev (; born 4 July 1990) is a

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n former professional

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who played as a defender.

Career

Early career

Kolev started to play football in

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's youth teams. In June 2007, English side

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officially invited Rosen to join the training sessions of their U-19 team for one week. Kolev's professional career started in 2008 but during that season he didn't make an appearance for the first team and in January 2010 was sent on loan to

B PFG The Bulgarian Second Professional Football League (), also known as Second League () or Vtora liga, is the second level of the Bulgarian football league system, below First Professional Football League (Bulgaria), First League and above the Third ...

side Bdin Vidin. Rosen made his debut for Bdin on 27 February 2010 in a 1–2 away loss against Balkan Botevgrad.

Kom-Minyor

In June 2010 his contract with CSKA was mutually terminated and Kolev joined

Kom-Minyor OFC Kom () is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Berkovitsa, currently playing in the Third Amateur Football League (Bulgaria), North-West Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. The club's home ground is the Mramor Stadium ...

. He made his Kom-Minyor début on 31 July 2010 in the away game versus Chavdar Byala Slatina. Kolev got his first goal on 11 September, in a 2–2 home draw against

Septemvri Simitli FC Septemvri () is a Bulgarian football club based in Simitli, which currently plays in the Third League, the third tier of the Bulgarian football league system. History The club was founded in 1942. From 1961 to 1975, it was called "Pirin miner ...

. On 2 October he scored his 2nd League goal of the season against

Vihren Sandanski OFC Vihren () is a Bulgarian football club from the town of Sandanski, currently playing in the Second League. Sandanski's home ground is the Sandanski Stadium in Sandanski with a capacity of 6,000. Vihren Sandanski's team colours are green an ...

in a 1–0 win. He continued his scoring in the season by scoring Kom-Minyor's second goal in a 2–0 win against Botev Krivodol of the

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on 20 November.

Botev Plovdiv

Kolev joined

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on 11 July 2014. Nine days later, on 20 July, he made his debut during the 1–0 win over

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. Kolev did not play in any official games in 2015 and on 25 May his contract with Botev was mutually terminated. Kolev left the team after playing in 11 games.

Peagsus

On 28 July 2017,

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announced that they had signed Kolev. On 8 July 2019, it was revealed that Kolev had left the club.

Statistics

References

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