Georgi Iliev, nicknamed ''The Michael'' (, ) (born 15 September 1956) is a retired 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 lea ...

and

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Career

In his career, Iliev played for

Sliven Sliven ( ) is List of cities and towns in Bulgaria, the eighth-largest city in Bulgaria and the administrative and industrial centre of Sliven Province and municipality in Northern Thrace. It is situated in the Sliven Valley at the foothills of th ...

CSKA Sofia CSKA Sofia () 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 Sports Club of the Army'' ...

Slavia Sofia PFC Slavia Sofia 1913 () is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home ground is the Stadion Aleksandar Sh ...

, Loko Sofia and Dunav Ruse. With

, he won 4

A PFG The First Professional Football League (), commonly known as Parva Liga or Bulgarian First League (currently known as the efbet League for sponsorship reasons), is a professional association football league in Bulgaria and the highest level of t ...

titles between 1980 and 1983 and was also

Bulgarian Cup The Bulgarian Cup () 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 tournament's format is ''single-elimination'', with all matche ...

holder twice – in 1981 and 1983. Iliev managed the "armymen" from 1990 to 1993. He is also a businessman. Iliev is married to Elizabeth and they have three sons – George, Georg and Georgi.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iliev, Georgi 1956 births Living people Bulgarian men's footballers 20th-century Bulgarian sportsmen Bulgaria men's international footballers Men's association football defenders FC Sliven players PFC CSKA Sofia players FC Dunav Ruse players PFC Slavia Sofia players FC Lokomotiv 1929 Sofia players IF Elfsborg players First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden