Vladimir Tsankov Yonkov () (born 19 July 1973 in

Pleven Pleven ( ) is the seventh most populous city in Bulgaria. Located in the northern part of the country, it is the administrative centre of Pleven Province, as well as of the subordinate Pleven municipality. It is the biggest economic center in ...

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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 ...

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football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

defensive midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. ...

Club Playing Honours

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Levski Sofia PFC Levski Sofia () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 by a group of high sc ...

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 1995–96, 1997–98 *

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 ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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Profile at LevskiSofia.info
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yonkov, Vladimir 1973 births Living people Footballers from Pleven Bulgarian men's footballers Bulgaria men's international footballers PFC Slavia Sofia players FC Hebar Pazardzhik players PFC Levski Sofia players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players SpVgg Greuther Fürth players FC Marek Dupnitsa players FC Kaliakra Kavarna players OFC Spartak Pleven players PFC Akademik Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players 2. Bundesliga players Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen