Hristo Zlatinski ( bg, Христо Златински; born 22 January 1985) is a

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n professional footballer, who currently plays in the Bulgarian Third League with Lokomotiv Plovdiv II.

Career

Zlatinski started his career in his home town

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in the local team

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. In 2005, he joined

Lokomotiv Plovdiv PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv ( bg, ПФК Локомотив Пловдив), commonly known as Loko Plovdiv, is a Bulgarian professional football club based in Plovdiv. Lokomotiv's home ground is the Lokomotiv Stadium which is situated in Lauta Park ...

. For two years in

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he played in 46 matches and scored 4 goals. In this period Zlatinski played also for the

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. In June 2007 he signed for three years with

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. In 2010 Zlatinski returned to Lokomotiv Plovdiv. At 18 June 2013, he joined Bulgarian champion Ludogorets Razgrad. During the 2013/2014

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, he scored two goals with long-distance efforts - in the 1:0 win over

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and on 27 February 2014, in the 3:3 draw with

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. He became 3rd captain of the side and one of the leaders in the changing room. For entire season Zlatinski scored 12 goals in all competitions.

International career

Zlatinski received his first call-up to the senior team in Mihail Madanski's first game in charge of Bulgaria in October 2011. On 7 October he made his Bulgaria debut in a 3–0 friendly loss against

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Personal life

He is married to Vanya. They have two children - a daughter named Elia and a younger son Christian.

Club

National team

Honours

Ludogorets * Bulgarian A Group: 2013–14, 2014–15 *

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup ( bg, Купа на България, Kupa na Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian annual football competition. It is the country's main cup competition and all officially registered Bulgarian football teams take part in it. The tournament ...

: 2013–14 *

Bulgarian Supercup The Bulgarian Supercup ( bg, Суперкупа на България) is the trophy won in a football match held between the football club that has won the Bulgarian first football division in the season that ended in the year of the match and ...

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Universitatea Craiova *

Cupa României The Cupa României ( en, Romanian Cup) is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. I ...

: 2017–18 *

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runner-up:

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