Dimitra Zhechkova Ivanova ( bg, Димитра Жечкова Иванова; born 26 January 2004) is a Bulgarian

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who plays as a

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for

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club

FC NSA Sofia FC NSA Sofia (Bulgarian: ФК НCА София) is the women's football club of the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy of Bulgaria, based in the capital city Sofia. The club has won the Bulgarian AFG title every year from 2005 to 2018, so they h ...

and the Bulgaria women's national team.

Club career

Ivanova has played for

NSA Sofia FC NSA Sofia (Bulgarian: ФК НCА София) is the women's football club of the Vasil Levski National Sports Academy of Bulgaria, based in the capital city Sofia. The club has won the Bulgarian AFG title every year from 2005 to 2018, so they h ...

in Bulgaria.

International career

Ivanova represented Bulgaria at the

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and the

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. She made her senior debut on 11 June 2021 as a 34th-minute substitution in a 0–1

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home loss to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

2004 births Living people Bulgarian women's footballers Women's association football forwards FC NSA Sofia players Bulgaria women's international footballers {{Bulgaria-footy-forward-stub