Bulgaria Hope for 1st Football Victory over England
Bulgaria's national football team are starting their qualification for Euro 2012 with a match against England at London's Wembley Stadium at 8 pm GMT Friday .
Bulgaria's national football team are starting their qualification for Euro 2012 with a match against England at London's Wembley Stadium at 8 pm GMT Friday .
Bulgarian media report Thursday on tensions in the English national football team which have led to a acrimonious anti-Capello piece in the Daily Mirror.
England coach Fabio Capello warned that Bulgaria will be a difficult adversary, some days before Friday's Euro 2012 qualifier game against Bulgaria in London.
England coach Fabio Capello named his team's line-up for its first two Euro 2012 qualifiers, against Bulgaria on Friday and Switzerland next Monday.
Levski Sofia defender Veselin Minev will be part of the line-up of the almost entirely foreign-based Bulgarian team for its 2012 European Championship qualifying opener against England next Friday.
Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov has voiced optimism about the outcome of the Euro qualification match between Bulgaria and England, saying his team can upset the Three Lions.
Bulgaria are set to start their Euro 2012 qualifying campaign at Wembley against England on September 3.
Bulgaria's Euro 2012 qualifying fixtures will be decided by a random draw after the nations in Group G failed to agree on acceptable dates.
Bulgarian star Stiliyan Petrov has confirmed his retirement from international football with Bulgaria, after the Euro 2012 championships.
Though the urns gifted Bulgaria with what is believed to be the most difficult group in qualifying for Euro 2012, the country's prime minister has said the team is able to come top of their table.
Italy coach Marcello Lippi said Group G of the UEFA Euro 2012, which includes Bulgaria, has been handed the most difficult draw.
Borislav Mihailov, head of the Bulgarian Football Union, has described Bulgaria's group for the Euro 2012 as "hard" while also expressing his satisfaction with the expected revenue from the matches.
Bulgarian national football coach Stanimir Stoilov has reacted to the result of the Euro 2012 draw that sees Bulgaria pitted against some stiff opposition in Group G
Bulgaria has been drawn in Group G of the UEFA Euro 2012 competition, in the qualifying draw held on Sunday in the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland.
Bulgaria's national football team will be among the third seeds when the draw for Euro 2012 qualifying is made in February.
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