11 years, 4 months and 6 days ago God was Bulgarian. Then, at "Parc des Prince", commentators Nikolay Kolev-Michmana, may he rest in peace, and Peter Vassilev were out of their reason as well as all Bulgarians - these at the stadium and the rest in front of their TV sets. Emil Kostadinov had just knocked down "the cocks" with his score for 2:1. Head-coach Penev's team qualified for the world finals in the ...
Taken from Standart News today.
Bulgaria Expects God's Help on Saturday Evening
11 years, 4 months and 6 days ago God was Bulgarian. Then, at "Parc des Prince", commentators Nikolay Kolev-Michmana, may he rest in peace, and Peter Vassilev were out of their reason as well as all Bulgarians - these at the stadium and the rest in front of their TV sets. Emil Kostadinov had just knocked down "the cocks" with his score for 2:1. Head-coach Penev's team qualified for the world finals in the USA and nobody had even the slightest idea what miracle the Bulgarian internationals will create there. The oblivion of one whole nation started on November, 17, 1993, reached its apogee in the summer of 1994 and ended up on June, 7, 1995 when Germany was also knocked down at "Vassil Levski" national stadium from 0:2 to 3:2. God is Bulgaria, we still believe this is so. Because the football miracles that happened to the Bulgarian national team have no other explanation. Bulgaria has a new meeting with God this Saturday evening. Is God still Bulgarian? Head-coach Stoichkov and his footballers need miracles indeed so that they beat Sweden. Without captain Stiliyan Petrov, Martin Petrov, Mariyan Hristov, Valeri Bojinov, Velizar Dimitrov, Emil Gargorov the rest of the footballers will find it very, very difficult to win the match. Bulgaria believes in her Christ(o). Some time ago Hristo Stoichkov used to say with a smile: "There are two Christ(os) - one of them is in Barcelona, the other is in the heavens." Stoichkov's faith in the Bulgarians who bought out all the tickets for the match for 7 hours only is enormous. One thing is certain - the miracle may become a fact if the whole stadium starts shaking with the roar of the spectators. Then the crowns of the Swedes will fall down. And the three of them. Bulgaria have not had a win vs the tough Swedes for 38 years, but this black series must be done away with on Saturday evening. So that Bulgaria opens a new page in her football history.