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Bulgaria's best tennis player Magdalena Maleeva qualified for the quarter final of the USD 585,000 Proximus Diamond Games in Antwerp, Belgium.
Maleeva reached the quarterfinal after she overcame the rivalry of the Czech player Iveta Benesova 6-4, 6-4.
Sports | February 19, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Greece's national football team won a 2-0 victory over Bulgaria's in a friendly match that took place in Athens on Wednesday evening.
It was Papadoupulos who notched up first, in the 26th minute of the game.
Sports | February 18, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's national football team went down by three places and now occupies the 37th place in the latest FIFA ranking.
The latest FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking is heavily influenced by the African Cup of Nations, which recently reached its climax in Tuni
Sports | February 18, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Lithuania's Lietuvos Rytas basketball club won Tuesday a 105:78 victory over Bulgaria's Lukoil Akademic in an eightfinals match for the title of 2003-2004 ULEB Cup champion.
The game, played in Lithuania, followed the encounter between Lukoil and Lietuvo
Sports | February 18, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Lecce striker Valeri Bozhinov has been convoked to play with Bulgaria's national youth team in Wednesday's match with Greece.
Bulgaria-born starlet said that he was proud to play for his homeland upon arriving from Italy on Tuesday.
Sports | February 17, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's Evgenia Radanova, five times absolute short track European champion, received Tuesday a special award in Sofia for her achievements.
Radanova was also voted Athlete of The Month by leading Bulgarian media.
Sports | February 17, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's "golden" footballer Hristo Stoitchkov, who has taken over a new job at his favorite FC Barcelona, is contemplating a tempting offer to attract Italy's Lecce player Valeri Bozhinov, Italian news agencies reported after Sunday's match of Lecce an
Sports | February 15, 2004, Sunday // 00:00
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A total of 170 athletes take part in the Dan Kolov International free style wrestling tournament which takes place in the Universiada hall in Sofia, February 14-15.
The competition is considered to be a mini-world championship, the men's freestyle Olympi
Sports | February 14, 2004, Saturday // 00:00
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Bulgarian soccer star Hristo Stoitchkov has started work with FC Barcelona where he will help train the team's junior players, the club said Wednesday, cited by CNN.
Barcelona said Stoitchov had taken up his new role several days ago.
Sports | February 12, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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The tickets for the long-anticipated match between Bulgaria's Levski and UK's Livepool, which will take place on March 3 at Sofia's Vassil Levski National Stadium, are nearly over, the Bulgarian club's financial manager Konstantin Badjekov announced on Th
Sports | February 12, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's biathlon team, composed of Olympic gold medallist Ekaterina Dafovska, Irina Nikulchina, Radka Popova and Paulina Filipova, ended 6th at the World Championship relay in Oberhof, Germany.
The best performed in the team is Bulgaria's Nagano winne
Sports | February 12, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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A total of 15,000 tickets for the anticipated Levski-Liverpool match that will take place March 3 in Sofia have been sold in just three days.
The game in Bulgaria's capital at the National Stadium Vassil Levski will be a return match, while the two teams
Sports | February 12, 2004, Thursday // 00:00
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Hristo Stoitchkov already works as a trainer at Barca and teaches the most promising forwards of soccer bases, Spanish newspaper El Mundo Deportivo wrote on Wednesday.
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's top figure skating pair Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski swept for the fourth time "Bulgaria's Sportsmen of the Month" award. Staviski, himself, was present at the awarding ceremony and expressed his and Albena's gratitude for the award.
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's best tennis player Magdalena Maleeva climbed two positions higher in the World Tennis Association rankings, ranking 21st among the singles.
After her last week's success at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, when she reached the final with U
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Another death case on the playground occurred on Tuesday in the Italian town of Pescara, when the 16-year-old Thomas Dezi fell breathless just minutes after joining the match on the local Rampignia stadium.
The youth football player passed away on the wa
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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A total of 8000 tickets for the Levski-Liverpool match in Sofia were sold just for one day. Hordes of football fans queued for tickets in front of the national stadium Vassil Levski.
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's sportsmen will sweep at least 6 golden medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, the country's Sports Minister Vassil Ivanov forecasted for private bTV channel.
He also announced that it is still unclear whether a visa regime will be imposed for
Sports | February 11, 2004, Wednesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's capital Sofia is going to host the ignition and the start of the Olympic Fire on its route in Bulgaria, a local Bulgarian newspaper read on Tuesday.
For that purpose, a selection of Olympic torchbearers has been launched by Sofia's municipalit
Sports | February 10, 2004, Tuesday // 00:00
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Bulgaria's ice dancing couple Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski retained the first place in the ranking of the International Skating Union (ISU) for ice dancing couples.
The Bulgarian duo has 4410 points, just a few days after Denkova and Staviski won th
Sports | February 9, 2004, Monday // 00:00
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Over 1,000 police, coast guard and fire brigade officers took part in the three-day pre-Olympics security drill at the Athens port of Piraeus and along the coastal area of Palaia Fokaia, Greek media reported over the weekend.
Code-named "Blue Odyssey," t
Sports | February 8, 2004, Sunday // 00:00
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