Dimitar Dushkov Penev ( bg, Димитър Душков Пенев, born 12 July 1945) is a Bulgarian

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coach and former player and central defender of

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia ( bg, ЦСКА София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia and currently competing in the country's premier football competition, the First League. ''CSKA'' is an abbreviation for ''Central Sport ...

. He played 90 games for

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and scored two goals. He is regarded as one of his country's best ever defenders, winning Bulgarian footballer of the year in 1967 and 1971, he also participated in three world cups for his country in 1966, 1970 and 1974. He is Honorary President of

and semi-pro side Nottingham United FC.

Personal life

Penev is uncle of former Bulgarian international and

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coach

Lyuboslav Penev Lyuboslav Mladenov Penev ( bg, Любослав Младенов Пенев; born 31 August 1966) is a Bulgarian professional football manager and former player. Penev played as a forward for several clubs in Bulgaria and Spain. He started hi ...

Coaching career

Penev was manager of the Bulgaria national team during the

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, where his team reached the semi-finals and then lost the bronze medal game with

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. Throughout his career as manager he demonstrated excellence in both tactics and team psychology. Penev's most notable quality was his ability to work well with young players. During his career at CSKA Sofia he discovered a lot of previously unknown or little-known talented youths and used them as a basis for a domestically and internationally successful squad. Amongst them

Hristo Stoichkov Hristo Stoichkov Stoichkov ( bg, Христо Стоичков Стоичков, ; born 8 February 1966) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who is a football commentator for TUDN. A prolific forward, he is regarded as one of the bes ...

Emil Kostadinov Emil Lubtchov Kostadinov ( bg, Емил Любчов Костадинов; born 12 August 1967) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer who played as a forward and represented the Bulgaria national team at two World Cups. Club career ...

Martin Petrov Martin Petyov Petrov ( bg, Мартин Петьов Петров; born 15 January 1979) is a Bulgarian former footballer who played as a winger. Club career Petrov began his career for Botev Vratsa. After a few good seasons, he signed with C ...

, Stiliyan Petrov and

Dimitar Berbatov Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov ( bg, Димитър Иванов Бербатов; born 30 January 1981) is a Bulgarian former professional footballer. A striker, he captained the Bulgaria national team from 2006 to 2010, and is the country's all-ti ...

. On 30 July 2007, he was appointed manager of the Bulgaria national team for the second time. Last he was the manager of

, but on 6 March 2009 CSKA fired the coach – the Bulgarian team decided to sub him with his nephew

, former player of CSKA Sofia,

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and

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Relevant statistics

As of April 2007, Penev has been in charge of the Bulgaria national team for 55 matches in total (25 wins, 15 draws, 15 losses, with a goal difference of 88:60).Това е Димитър Пенев – Topsport.bg
Topsport.ibox.bg (25 April 2007). Retrieved on 21 July 2016.

Honours

Player

Lokomotiv Sofia *

A Group The First Professional Football League ( bg, Първа професионална футболна лига, Parva Profesionalna Futbolna Liga), also known as the Bulgarian First League or Parva Liga, currently known as the efbet League for spon ...

: 1963–64 CSKA Sofia *

(7): 1965–66, 1968–69, 1970–71, 1971–72, 1972–73, 1974–75, 1975–76 *

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1965 Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for a full term ...

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ...

1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; ...

Manager

Bulgaria *

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: fourth place

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Penev, Dimitar 1945 births Living people Footballers from Sofia Bulgarian footballers Bulgaria international footballers Bulgarian football managers FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players PFC CSKA Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players 1966 FIFA World Cup players 1970 FIFA World Cup players 1974 FIFA World Cup players 1994 FIFA World Cup managers UEFA Euro 1996 managers PFC CSKA Sofia managers Bulgaria national football team managers PFC Spartak Varna managers People from Sofia City Province Association football defenders