Georgi Georgiev Dimitrov (Bulgarian: Георги Георгиeв Димитров; 14 January 1959 – 8 May 2021) was a Bulgarian professional

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who played as a

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. Dimitrov represented

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on 77 occasions between 1978 and 1988, scoring 7 goals. He captained his country 56 times including at the

1986 FIFA World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-tea ...

Honours

Club

CSKA Sofia * A Group: 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1988–89 *

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1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

* Cup of the Soviet Army:

, 1986, 1989

Individual

* Bulgarian Footballer of the Year: 1985

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* 1959 births 2021 deaths Footballers from Stara Zagora Province Bulgarian men's footballers 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen Men's association football defenders Bulgaria men's international footballers 1986 FIFA World Cup players PFC Beroe Stara Zagora players PFC CSKA Sofia players AS Saint-Étienne players PFC Slavia Sofia players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Ligue 1 players Bulgarian football managers Bulgarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in France Bulgarian expatriate sportspeople in France {{Bulgaria-footy-defender-stub