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Bulgaria "Not The Easiest of Places to Play Football"

Sports | September 13, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00

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The Times newspaper dedicated an article to the forthcoming clash between Bulgaria's Lokomotiv Plovdiv and Bolton.

Besides the expected game the newspaper also focuses on fate of the late president of the Bulgarian club Georgi Iliev. He was celebrating his team's UEFA Cup qualifying round defeat of OFK Belgrade in a bar in Slanchev Bryag when a sniper shot him.The next Bulgarian league match, against CSKA Sofia, was postponed and when Eduard Eranosyan, the manager.

Bolton's Stelios Giannakopoulos, who was a Champions League regular with Olympiacos, knows enough about Bulgarian football, the Times reported.

"I have been to Bulgaria for a couple of pre-seasons," Giannakopoulos told the newspaper. "I know it's a poor country and it's not the easiest of places to play football. We will need a good result from the first game so that we have no nerves when we go there."

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