Dimitar Berbatov, who grabbed the award for best centre forward in 2006 will have a British child named after him. File photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)
The British Liverpool fan Ian Preedy plans to name his next child after Bulgaria's Spurs star Dimitar Berbatov, the Sun Daily reported.
Preedy will do that as gratitude gesture to Berbatov for helping him scoop a GBP 125,000 jackpot form the Sun Dream Team game.
Preedy, 37, a plumber living in Oxfordshire, won the fantasy football Dream Team contest with 2,324 points - just 190 off a perfect score. He finished first from an incredible 565,593 entrants.
And it was Bulgarian's Berbatov, whose 23 goals for Spurs this term made the vital difference for the winning dream team Wot Not To Wear.
"A lot of people wondered whether Dimitar would be any good in the Premiership but I've followed him for years and knew he'd be a great signing," Preedy said, finding it difficult to hide his excitement.
"I'm so pleased I've told the missus that we're going to call our next child Dimitar -even if it's a girl," the winner said.
Actually it was his wife Sarah's team that won the Dream Team title.
"I entered two fantasy teams, one for me and the other for Sarah. We named them after our favourite TV shows and agreed to split the money 50-50 if either of us won," he admitted.