Zlatko Georgiev Yankov ( bg, Златко Георгиев Янков; born 7 June 1966) is a Bulgarian

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

manager and former player, who played as a midfielder.

Career

Yankov was capped 79 times and scored four goals for the Bulgaria national team between 1986 and 1999. He played eight games wearing the no.6 shirt at the World Cups in

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

and

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, and he was also in the Bulgarian

Euro 1996 The 1996 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 96, was the 10th UEFA European Championship, a quadrennial football tournament contested by European nations and organised by UEFA. It took place in England from 8 to 30 ...

squad. Levski legend Zlatko Yankov was the Bulgarian player who gave the last pass to Yordan Letchkov for Bulgaria's second winning goal against world champions Germany during their clash in the 1994 World Cup quarterfinals. At club level, he was part of the famous Levski team from the 1990s, which eliminated British giants Glasgow Rangers in

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

. His nickname is "Фара" (The

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Bulgaria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Yankov goal.''

Honours

Levski 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 ...

1992–93 Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since th ...

, 1993–94, 1994–95 * Bulgarian Cup: 1990–91, 1991–92, 1993–94 Beşiktaş * Turkish Cup: 1997–98 * Turkish Super Cup:

Bulgaria * FIFA World Cup: fourth place

References

External links

Profile at LevskiSofia.info
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yankov, Zlatko 1966 births Living people Bulgarian footballers Association football midfielders Bulgaria international footballers Bulgaria youth international footballers 1994 FIFA World Cup players 1998 FIFA World Cup players UEFA Euro 1996 players Real Valladolid players La Liga players Neftochimic Burgas players FC Chernomorets Burgas players KFC Uerdingen 05 players PFC Levski Sofia players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players Gençlerbirliği S.K. footballers Beşiktaş J.K. footballers Adanaspor footballers Vanspor footballers First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Süper Lig players Bundesliga players Bulgarian expatriate footballers Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Expatriate footballers in Turkey Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Germany Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate footballers in Spain Sportspeople from Burgas