Kiril Manolov Rakarov ( bg, Кирил Манолов Ракаров, 24 May 1932 - 25 August 2006) was 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 Macedo ...

n football player who played as a defender. He represented

at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the seventh edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place be ...

. For 13 seasons he made 190 league appearances and scored 17 league goals for

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 ...

Honours

Club

;CSKA Sofia * Bulgarian League (10):

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...

, 1954, 1955, 1956,

1957 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

, 1958–59, 1959–60, 1960–61, 1961–62 *

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 tournamen ...

(3): 1953–54, 1954–55, 1960–61

International

;Bulgaria * Olympic Bronze Medal: 1956

References

1932 births 2006 deaths Bulgarian footballers People from Pavlikeni PFC CSKA Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players 1962 FIFA World Cup players Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Bulgaria Olympic bronze medalists for Bulgaria Bulgaria international footballers Bulgarian football managers PFC Cherno More Varna managers Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Association football defenders Sportspeople from Veliko Tarnovo Province {{Bulgaria-footy-defender-stub