Atanas Fidanin ( bg, Атанас Фиданин; born 9 August 1986) is a

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

left back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s ...

for

Sevlievo Sevlievo ( bg, Севлиево ) List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, is a town in north-central Bulgaria, part of Gabrovo Province. Sevlievo is known as one of the wealthiest towns in Bulgaria owing to the well developed local economy, high em ...

. He was raised in Levski Sofia's youth teams.

Career

Fidanin started his career at

Levski Sofia Levski Sofia ( bg, Левски София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which competes in the First League, the top division of the Bulgarian football league system. The club was founded on 24 May 1914 b ...

. After that he played on loan for

Rodopa Smolyan FC Rodopa (ФК Родопа) is a Bulgarian football club based in Smolyan, which currently plays in the South-East Third League, the third tier of Bulgarian football league system. The team was named after the Rhodope Mountains and plays it ...

and Vidima-Rakovski. In June 2007 he signed with Chernomorets Burgas for fee of 20 000 € from Levski. From July 2009 he was part of the

PFC Montana FC Montana ( bg, ФК Монтана) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Montana, which currently plays in the Second League, the second level of Bulgarian football league system. Montana plays its home matches at the Ogosta Sta ...

squad. He was released from

in June 2011. Fidanin spent three full seasons at

Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa Lokomotiv ( bg, Локомотив) is a Bulgarian association football club based in Gorna Oryahovitsa, which currently competes in the Third League, the third level of Bulgarian football. Established in 1932 as a sports association of the rai ...

but left the club in July 2017 when his contract expired. In July 2017, Fidanin signed with

Botev Vratsa Botev ( bg, Ботев) is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Vratsa, that competes in the First League, the top division of Bulgarian football. The club was founded in 1921. Since 1948, Botev have played their home games at St ...

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* 1986 births Living people People from Gotse Delchev Bulgarian footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Second Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players PFC Rodopa Smolyan players PFC Vidima-Rakovski Sevlievo players PFC Chernomorets Burgas players FC Montana players PFC Pirin Gotse Delchev players FC Lokomotiv Gorna Oryahovitsa players FC Botev Vratsa players Association football defenders Sportspeople from Blagoevgrad Province {{Bulgaria-footy-defender-stub