Bulgaria's Stilian Petrov was put by the ESPN channel in the Euro 2004 losers' team. Photo by www.euro2004.com
The captain of the Bulgarian national football team Stilian Petrov was put in the Euro losers' team.
ESPN channel named 11 footballers from all the teams that participated in the Euro 2004 in Portugal and placed Spanish coach Inaki Saez ahead of the team.
England's goalkeeper David James along with Portugal's Paulo Ferreira, France's Marcel Desailly, Mikael Silvestre and German Yens Nowotny also made to the team.
Beckham and Dutch Philip Cocu accompanied by Italians Christian Vieri and Francesco Totti and Spain's Raul are the other favorites for the losers' team.
Bulgaria has traditions with its hot-tempered captains, but Stoitchkov managed to show his nice play along with his curses, ESPN commented.