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ITALIAN LUIGI SIMONI – CSKA’S NEW COACH

Luigi Simoni is the new coach of the football team of CSKA. On December 8 he signed a two-year contract under which he is to come into office at the beginning of 2002.

Sports | December 9, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1472

BULGARIANS GO TO WRESTLING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTERFINALS

Armen Nazarian and Sergey Mureyko advanced to the quarterfinals of the 46th Greco-Roman World Wrestling Championships in Patras, Greece. Armen Nazarian, Bulgaria's two-time Olympic champion, beat Istvan Majoros of Hungary 4-0 in the 58 kilogram (127 3/4 p

Sports | December 8, 2001, Saturday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1069

BULGARIANS THIRD IN JAPANESE ICE SKATING COMPETITION

Bulgaria's Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviyski won the bronze in free skating competition in Kumamoto, Japan Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France won the gold medal. Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas of Lithuania took the silver medal.

Sports | December 2, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 978

BULGARIAN WITH GOLD AT WORLD FREESTYLE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Nikolay Paslar won gold medal at the 69 kg finals of the 35th World Freestyle Wrestling Championship for men in Sofia on November 25. So far the Bessarabian Bulgarian had won 2 bronze medals for Bulgaria at European Championships.

Sports | November 26, 2001, Monday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2280

PASLAR ALSO AT WRESTLING FINAL IN SOFIA

Nikolay Paslar qualified for the 69 kg final at the 35th World Freestyle Wrestling Championship for men in Sofia. Thus the Bessarabian Bulgarian provided himself the silver medal at least.

Sports | November 25, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1791

BULGARIAN WITH GOLD AT WORLD FREESTYLE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Two Bulgarians, Serafim Barzakov (63 kg) and Krasimir Kochev (97 kg) advanced to the finals. Barzakov won the gold medal with 3-1 against world and Olympic champion Alireza Dabir of Iran.

Sports | November 24, 2001, Saturday // 00:00 | Viewed: 967

THREE BULGARIAN VICTORIES IN WORLD FREESTYLE WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Minister of State Administration Dimitur Kalchev opened on November 22 the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships in Sofia. The wrestling tournament scheduled for Sept.

Sports | November 23, 2001, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1092

JOVTCHEV DECLARED N 1 GYMNASTIST IN GENT

Jordan Jovtchev was pronounced N 1 Gymnast of the already ended 35th World Gymnastics Championship in Gent (Belgium). The Bulgarian won the biggest number of medals in the men's competition - 3, becoming champion at the standing exercises and the loops, a

Sports | November 6, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1086

JOVTCHEV - SUPERSTAR AT GYMNASTICS WORLDS

Bulgaria's Jordan Jovtchev and Russia's elegant Svetlana Khorkina took the limelight by winning two gold medals each out of five individual apparatus finals at the World Gymnastics Championships here on Saturday, AP reported. Jovtchev, bronze medalist on

Sports | November 4, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 797

SCHUSTER INVITED TO RUN LEVSKI

The bosses of Levski had offered to the legendary German footballer in the recent times to take the helm of the 'blues', Todor Batkov, member of the Supervisory Board, said yesterday. 'Schuster insisted on a salary, accounting for 15 percent of the annual

Sports | October 31, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 925

LUKOIL BECAME MAIN SPONSOR OF FC NEFTOCHIMIK

The Bulgarian branch of the Russian oil company LUKoil became major sponsor of the Burgas football club Neftochimik. LUKoil however did not buy the club’s controlling stake.

Sports | October 29, 2001, Monday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1039

OCTOBER 18 UEFA CUP RESULTS

CSKA Kyiv (Ukr) 0 - 2 Club Brugge (Bel) Osijek (Cro) 1 - 2 AEK Athens (Gre)

Sports | October 19, 2001, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1330

UEFA: LITEX WON WHILE CSKA IS LOSING

At the first round of games for UEFA cup Litex (Lovetch) beated Union in Berlin as a guest 2 to 0, CSKA lost as a guest in Milan 0 to 2. All results – read in SPORTS today

Sports | October 19, 2001, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 904

TENNIS: MALEEVA DOWNED BY TAUZIAT AT SWISSCOM

Fifth-seeded Nathalie Tauziat of France advanced to the second round of the $1.2 million Swisscom Challenge, whose field is depleted by the loss of top players, AP reported.

Sports | October 15, 2001, Monday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1051

NORWAY BULGARIA MOROCCO LINE UP FOR EAGLES

Lagos In a bid to show case the Super Eagles before the Mali 2002 Nations Cup, the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) has lined up series of friendlies that would be played in three Nigerian capitals from November 7 to 14.

Sports | October 14, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1015

WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP MOVED TO BULGARIA

The world wrestling championships scheduled for New York last month but postponed after the terrorist attacks will now take place in Bulgaria and Greece, the international wrestling federation announced. FILA, wrestling`s world governing body, said the fr

Sports | October 11, 2001, Thursday // 00:00 | Viewed: 2195

EUROPEAN WORLD CUP CAPSULES

ABSTRACTED from The Canadian Press A look at the nine European World Cup groups heading into the final weekend of qualifying matches.

Sports | October 5, 2001, Friday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1479

FOOTBALL: COMPLETE GUIDE TO QUALIFYING FOR THE 2002 WORLD CUP GROUP-BY-GROUP GUIDES

The Independent - United Kingdom BY PHIL SHAW

Sports | October 3, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1745

FOOTBALL: QUALIFYING FOR THE 2002 WORLD CUP GROUP 3

Bulgaria Plays in Prague against Czech on Saturday. The picture in Group Three before:

Sports | October 3, 2001, Wednesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1486

MALEEVA 16TH ON THE WTA RANKING

1 (1) Martina Hingis, Switzerland, 5,256 points.

Sports | October 2, 2001, Tuesday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1088

BULGARIAN WOMEN WITH BRONZE AT EURO VOLLEYBALL

Bulgaria defeated Ukraine 3:1 (25:23, 22:25, 25:21, 25:21) in the bronze medal match at the European Volleyball Championships for Women and qualified automatically for the next championships in Ankara (Turkey).

Sports | September 30, 2001, Sunday // 00:00 | Viewed: 1002
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