Vasil Spasov ( bg, Васил Спасов), nicknamed The Roller (30 December 1919 – 16 November 1996) was a
Bulgarian
football
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player and manager who played as a forward. He achieved 17
cap (sport)s for his country, scoring five goals.
While he played the majority of his career with
Levski Sofia, they won five Bulgarian Championship titles and four Bulgarian cups.
Honours
Player
;Levski Sofia
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Bulgarian State Championship (1):
1942
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Declaration by United Nations is signed by China, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 22 other nations, in wh ...
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Bulgarian Republic Championship
The Republic Football Championship was a national football competition in Bulgaria, successor of the State Championship. It was organised for only four years between 1945 and 1948. After 1948 it was reorganised as a Republic Football Group.
Fo ...
(2):
1946
Events January
* January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held.
* January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into f ...
,
1947
It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Events
January
* January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...
*
Bulgarian A Group (2):
1948–49,
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
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Bulgarian Cup (4): 1942, 1946, 1947, 1949
*Sofia Championship (5): 1942, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1948
*Bulgarian footballer of the Year: 1948
Manager
;Botev Plovdiv
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Bulgarian A Group:
1966–67
;Spartak Sofia
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Bulgarian Cup: 1967–68
;Omonia
*
Cypriot First Division (3):
1973–74,
1980–81,
1981–82
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Cypriot Cup (3): 1974, 1981, 1982
*
Cypriot Super Cup (2): 1981, 1982
;Levski Sofia
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Bulgarian A Group:
1976–77
*
Bulgarian Cup: 1976–77
References
External links
Levski Sofia career summaryMaccabi Haifa coaches(in Hebrew)
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1919 births
1996 deaths
Bulgarian footballers
Bulgaria international footballers
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
PFC Levski Sofia players
Akademik Sofia players
Bulgarian football managers
PFC Levski Sofia managers
Bulgaria national football team managers
AC Omonia managers
Cyprus national football team managers
Bulgarian expatriate football managers
Footballers from Sofia
Association football forwards